ABOUT
Meghna Roy Choudhury is a theatre director, playwright, educator and aspiring theatre practitioner based in Mumbai, trained at Drama School Mumbai. She holds a Master’s degree in Physics and has trained extensively in Bharatanatyam, Therukoothu and Kalaripayattu. Her practice brings together performance, autobiography, history and scientific inquiry, with a focus on developing contemporary theatrical languages rooted in her cultural contexts.
She is the recipient of the INLAKS Theatre Award (2025), the Tendulkar-Dubey Fellowship (2025), the Niloufer Sagar Alumni Production Grant (2024, 2025), and the Parivartan Annual Grant. Her recent productions include The Apology, Kheyechish? and Kadambari. Kadambari received multiple nominations at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) 2026, including Best Original Script and Best Direction for Meghna, while its lead performer, Ipshita Chakraborty Singh, won the Best Supporting Actress award.
She is also the Project Lead and Co-curator for Third Bell and Hear, Here Kolkata at Bhasha Centre. Through Third Bell, she strives to build a community of emerging Bangla playwrights, creating a space for them to exchange ideas, discuss their writing practices and share tools for developing original plays. The initiative also seeks to nurture and revive a culture of original Bangla playwriting.
She is currently developing The Archive on the Wall, a science-realist play inspired by the holographic principle, under the mentorship of playwright Ramu Ramanathan. She is also directing Enough by Stef Smith, which will premiere in December 2026. Her play Kheyechish? is being adapted into three different Indian languages: Kannada, in collaboration with Shravan Baliga and Christopher Ninasam; Marathi, with Nirmik Cultural Centre; and Nepali, with Shilpee Theatre, Kathmandu. Apart from her own projects, she is currently assisting Abhishek Majumdar on his upcoming science fiction play Juno 77.
She is also interested in set design and, beyond designing for her own productions, has designed the set for Sapan Saran’s Ottam.
Her practice also extends to Theatre in Education, where she has been working with children for the past eight years, collaborating with schools and NGOs through devising, Theatre of the Oppressed, creative writing and playback theatre.
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