'Love Person' at Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago, IL
Aditi Brennan Kapil is a playwright, actress, and director,
of Bulgarian and Indian descent, raised in Sweden, and currently residing in
Minneapolis, MN. She is a graduate of Macalester College with a BA in English
and Dramatic Arts.
Her play Love Person, a
four part love story in Sanskrit, ASL and English, has been produced to
critical acclaim around the country. It was developed during a Many
Voices residency at the Playwrights' Center, work-shopped at the Lark Play
Development Center in NY, and selected for reading at the National New Play
Network (NNPN) conference 2006. Love Person was produced in a NNPN rolling
world premiere at Mixed Blood Theatre (MN), Marin Theater (CA), and Phoenix
Theatre (IN),in the 2007/08
season. In 2008/09 it was produced at Live Girls! Theatre in Seattle, Alley
Repertory Theatre in Boise, and Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. Love
Person received the Stavis Playwriting Award in 2009.
Her most recent play, Agnes Under
The Big Top, a tall tale, was selected as a 2009 Distinguished New Play
Development Project by the NEA New Play Development Program hosted by Arena
Stage, and was developed by the Lark Play Development Center (NY), Mixed Blood
Theatre (MN), InterAct Theatre (PA), the Playwrights' Center (MN), and the
Rhodope International Theater Laboratory (Bulgaria). Agnes Under the Big Top
premiered at Mixed Blood Theatre and Long Wharf Theatre (CT) in 2011, and will
be produced at Borderlands Theater (AZ) in 2012 in a NNPN rolling world
premiere.
Aditi's playwriting credits include a number of plays for
youth, among them The Deaf Duckling, a bilingual (ASL & English)
educational touring show about growing up Deaf, created in collaboration with
Deaf performer Nic Zapko for Mixed Blood Theater, The Adventures of Hanuman,
King of the Monkeys, a Bollywood style musical inspired by tales from the
Ramayana, and Hanuman and the Girl Prince a play in iambic verse inspired by
an episode in the Mahabharata, for SteppingStone Theatre for Youth.
She has also scripted several productions for In the Heart
of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, notably Gotama a play about the early
life of the Buddha, and Beneath the Surface, a water circus.
Aditi is a Resident Artist at Mixed Blood Theatre, and a
Core Writer at The Playwrights' Center.
