On 4 May 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the prolific award-winning writer/director Misha Chowdhury.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury is a many-tentacled writer and director, born in India, based in Brooklyn. He directed the premiere of his playwriting debut, Public Obscenities (NYT Critic’s Pick; Soho Rep, NAATCO, Woolly Mammoth, TFANA), a bilingual play in Bangla and English, which was named one of three finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and earned Misha a Whiting Award for writing and an Obie Award for directing. He recently wrote, directed, and performed in Rheology, a collaboration with his physicist mother (HERE Arts Center, Bushwick Starr, Ma-Yi, upcoming at Playwrights Horizons). He also directed Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot (NYT Critic’s Pick; Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Studio Seaview) and Jesse Eisenberg’s The Ziegfield Files (Studio Seaview), and a revival of the musical, Gospel at Colonus (Little Island). Misha is also a recipient of The Relentless Award, The Mark O’Donnell Prize, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Princess Grace Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, two Sundance fellowships, and a Fulbright Fellowship.
