Biography
I am a writer, filmmaker, and performer originally fromIndia, now based in New Mexico. I received a Fiction Fellowship from the New YorkFoundation for the Arts, a Fulbright grant to Mongolia and CEC Arts Link Awardto conduct creativity workshops in Ramallah with Ashtar Theatre. My stories/poems and films havebeen published in US and international journals and broadcast outlets likwe BBC,Discovery and PBS. My plays have been produced/read in New York, NewMexico venues such as The Players Club, Santa Fe Playhouse, Teatro Paraguas,National Hispanic Cultural Center. I toured The Good Manners of ColonizedSubjects, a solo play of dance and poetry at the Pan Asian Repertory Theater'sNuworks 2019 festival, The Arts at Mark's Garage (Honolulu), Maple Street DanceSpace (Albuquerque), and American Samoa Community College. My new play, Once I was a stone una piedra ek pathar will be part of the 2021 Nuworks festival of the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. Read more shebanacoelho.com
