Dipika Guha

Dipika Guha is a Calcutta-born playwright raised in India, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Her plays include Yoga Play (South Coast Rep, SF Playhouse, and Syracuse Stage, amongst others), The Art of Gaman (Theatre 503 London, Relentless Award semifinalist), and Unreliable (Kansas City Rep). Recent works include Azaan, a play for Oregon Symphony Orchestra; In Braunau for Playwrights Horizons Theatre School; and contributions to You Across From Me (Humana, Actors Theatre of Louisville). Guha was a Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, the inaugural Shakespeare’s Sister Playwriting Fellow, and is a current Venturous Fellow with the Lark for her play Passing. She’s a proud alumnus of Ars Nova Playgroup, Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, the Women’s Project Time Warner Lab, Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, the Ma Yi Writers Lab, the Geffen Playwrights Lab, and is a member of New Dramatists and a Core Writer at the Playwrights Centre. She is currently under commission from South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Barrington Stage. For television, Guha has written on American Gods, Sneaky Pete, Overlooked, projects in development at AMC, and the comedy Black Monday on Showtime. She is also developing a pilot with FilmNation. Guha earned her undergraduate degree at University College London, won a Frank Knox Fellowship to Harvard University, and has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama under Paula Vogel.