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Dr. Suha Priyadarshini Chakravorty is an established vocalist and a spoken word performer who also has worked as conceptual and creative director for many alternate and intimate theatre projects in Kolkata and London alongside her day-job as a corporate finance consultant in London. She promotes counter culture and third theatre having performed and directed plays, curated alternative and street theatre performances around installations both in open-air and intimate spaces including galleries and museums on a range of social issues.

She has worked extensively with Best of Kolkata Campus Productions- a non-profit, non-registered collective of campus theatre activists working on non-proscenium spaces since 1992. She has also received critical appreciation for playing key roles in several bi-lingual theatre pieces and for her performances in theatrical adaptations of famous plays such as Tagore’s Raktakarobi (Red Oleanders) and Choli ke Peechhe- a poignant tale adapted from Mahasweta Devi’s Stonodayini (The Breast-giver), Just Look at Me: Keep Looking and How Best Is My Bakery, both emotionally charged plays on the Gujarat riots of 2012, If I Die Do You Have a Problem- a saga of human trafficking and women and child abuse and How Posh is my Spice- a musical production chronicling the ploy of the child labour intensive industry of football stitching, by fusing elements of slap-stick with dark humour.

She has also written and directed solo performance pieces such as Amar Ostro Mrityu- (adapted from Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis) a psychologically moving take on fluid and trans-gender identities and recently, The Broken Chalice which was inspired by Eve Ensler’s -The Vagina Monologues. She has also received critical appreciation for her play Adajhya- The Unburnable that was inspired by These Trafficked Texts by Parnab Mukherjee that she presented at the Season of Bangla Drama in 2019. While serving as the President of the Indian Dance Society for 3 consecutive years since 2017, she began collaborating with Indian Classical dancers to present dance- drama style theatre ensembles that goes beyond the traditional aesthetics which pure classical dance evokes, into a complex of physical tension that is produced out of physical theatre fusing with dance in her recent endeavour Meghadootam that was staged at SOAS, University of London.