'Love Person' World Premiere at Mixed Blood Theatre- February 2008
Aditi Brennan Kapil is an actress, writer, 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 latest 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" was nominated for the Blackburn Prize, the Francesca Primus Award, and the ATCA/Steinberg Award, and received the Stavis Playwriting Award in 2009.
Her current work-in-progress, "Agnes Under The Big Top, a tall tale," was selected as a 'Distinguished New Play Development Project' by the NEA New Play Development Program hosted by Arena Stage, and will be developed at 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..." is slated to premiere at Mixed Blood Theatre in 2010.
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, and "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 for youth in iambic verse inspired by a brief episode in the Mahabharata, for SteppingStone Theater for Youth Development. She has also collaborated on several productions with 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.
"Messy Utopia" which she directed, and co-wrote with Seema Sueko, Velina Hasu-Houston, Janet Allard, and Naomi Iizuka, for Mixed Blood Theatre received an Ivey Award, and #6 in the City Pages Best of the Twin Cities 2007.
Aditi is a resident artist at Mixed Blood Theatre, and a Core Writer and McKnight Fellow at The Playwrights' Center (Minneapolis).
