1 hr 7 min
Bullpen Sessions Episode 80: Dipti Bramhandkar The Farm Theater's Bullpen Sessions
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- Performing Arts
Dipti Bramhandkar is a Mumbai-born playwright, filmmaker, LAByrinth Theater Company member. She was commissioned by Juggerknot Theatre Company in Miami for Conjuring the King, a fully immersive show about an Elvis fan, which is currently running (2024.) The Farm Theater has awarded her their 2023-24 College Collaboration Project Fellowship. Bramhandkar will be in residence at multiple universities throughout 2023-24 to develop a new play in collaboration with different college theater programs. The first of the two, Soft Launch, premiered at Centre College in early 2023. The second, The Ruminants, will be produced three times - Austin Peay State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Shenandoah University (2024.) She presented her new play, Love Lake, at LAByrinth's Barn Series in 2023, which is now in development. This is the third of four plays that have been selected for the Barn Series since 2020. Other recent work includes Is There Even Porn in India?, which was workshopped in London with director Tim Supple (former AD of the Young Vic) and dramaturg, Jack Bradley (Sonia Friedman Productions.) It was presented in New York (with Sarita Choudhury, Kevin Corrigan, and Ajay Naidu.) Her play Islands of Contentment (Daphne Rubin-Vega, Danny Pudi, Florencia Lozano, Sathya Sridharan, Mahira Kakkar, Laura Gómez, Rita Wolf, Kalki Koechlin, Suraj Sharma, and more) was produced by Hypokrit Productions and The Tank. She was the playwright in residence at Guild Hall, which subsequently commissioned A Land Without Weather(with David Zayas, David Anzuelo, Chris McGarry, Purva Bedi, Rajesh Bose.) She was commissioned by Compass Needle Productions to write two audio plays, Kishori’s Canteen and Learning to Swim, which are out on Audible. Her audio series Quarantheater was featured on WNYC. Her short film The Choice (with Bobby Daniel Rodriguez) was selected for several film festivals. She holds a BA from Cornell University and a MA from Cambridge University.
Dipti Bramhandkar is a Mumbai-born playwright, filmmaker, LAByrinth Theater Company member. She was commissioned by Juggerknot Theatre Company in Miami for Conjuring the King, a fully immersive show about an Elvis fan, which is currently running (2024.) The Farm Theater has awarded her their 2023-24 College Collaboration Project Fellowship. Bramhandkar will be in residence at multiple universities throughout 2023-24 to develop a new play in collaboration with different college theater programs. The first of the two, Soft Launch, premiered at Centre College in early 2023. The second, The Ruminants, will be produced three times - Austin Peay State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Shenandoah University (2024.) She presented her new play, Love Lake, at LAByrinth's Barn Series in 2023, which is now in development. This is the third of four plays that have been selected for the Barn Series since 2020. Other recent work includes Is There Even Porn in India?, which was workshopped in London with director Tim Supple (former AD of the Young Vic) and dramaturg, Jack Bradley (Sonia Friedman Productions.) It was presented in New York (with Sarita Choudhury, Kevin Corrigan, and Ajay Naidu.) Her play Islands of Contentment (Daphne Rubin-Vega, Danny Pudi, Florencia Lozano, Sathya Sridharan, Mahira Kakkar, Laura Gómez, Rita Wolf, Kalki Koechlin, Suraj Sharma, and more) was produced by Hypokrit Productions and The Tank. She was the playwright in residence at Guild Hall, which subsequently commissioned A Land Without Weather(with David Zayas, David Anzuelo, Chris McGarry, Purva Bedi, Rajesh Bose.) She was commissioned by Compass Needle Productions to write two audio plays, Kishori’s Canteen and Learning to Swim, which are out on Audible. Her audio series Quarantheater was featured on WNYC. Her short film The Choice (with Bobby Daniel Rodriguez) was selected for several film festivals. She holds a BA from Cornell University and a MA from Cambridge University.
1 hr 7 min