Munia Debleena Tripathi
PhD
Biography
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (Expected: 2024)
Debleena is a Kolkata based theatre director and playwright. She has worked as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Drama, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata; as a drama teacher in several Kolkata schools, and as a facilitator in theatre workshops for children and adult amateurs. She specializes in using theatre techniques in training and awareness programmes and has engaged with various communities including medical teachers at private universities, women in interior villages of West Bengal and economically underprivileged children in urban fringes of Kolkata. She published her first book of plays (in Bangla) in 2018. Debleena is in Toronto to pursue a PhD at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, under the Jackman Junior Fellowship. She intends to research aspects of theatre spectatorship in Kolkata, under the supervision of Dr. Gallagher.