Route 66 Theatre Company Presents YOGA PLAY By Dipika Guha

Yoga apparel giant Jojomon are at the top of their game when a terrible scandal sends them into freefall. Newly hired CEO Joan stakes everything on a wild plan to recover their earnings and their reputation. YOGA PLAY is a comedy about enlightenment in a world determined to sell it.

Tuesday, March 20th, 7:30PM (but make sure you give yourself a few minutes to grab a drink-the bar upstairs will be open!) Mrs. Murphy and Sons Irish Bistro (3905 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago-parking available on the corner of Byron and Lincoln)
PRICE: FREE! (but having a drink is strongly encouraged)

Dipika Guha was born in Calcutta and raised in India, Russia and the United Kingdom. She is a Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University for the year 2017-2018 and was the inaugural recipient of the Shakespeare's Sister Playwriting Award with the Lark Play Development Center, A Room of Her Own and Hedgebrook.

Her plays include Yoga Play (South Coast Repertory Theatre, KILROYS LIST '17), The Rules (SF Playhouse), The Art of Gaman (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor '16, KILROYS LIST '16, Relentless Award Semi-Finalist), I Enter the Valley (Theatreworks New Play Festival, Southern Rep New Play Festival), Mechanics of Love (Crowded Fire Theatre, Two by For, NYC) and Blown Youth (published by Playscripts). Most recently her work has been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Roundabout Underground, McCarter Theatre's Sallie B. Goodman Residency, New Georges, Shotgun Players, the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Southern Rep, 24 Hour Plays on Broadway and the Magic Theatre amongst others. Dipika has been the recipient of several residencies and fellowships including the Djerassi Residency Program, the Hermitage Retreat, Ucross, SPACE at Ryder Farm and a Dramatists Guild Fellowship. She is an alumnus of Ars Nova Playgroup, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Women's Project Lab and the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. She was recently a visiting artist at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, is a resident playwright at the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco and a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. MFA: Yale School of Drama under Paula Vogel.

Arianna Soloway is a director and dramaturg located in Chicago. Originally from Atlanta, GA, she graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2013 with a BFA in directing for theater. She recently directed a site-specific production on Pine by Jacqui Honess-Martin, Carrie & Francine with Haven Theatre Company and Guardians at Mary Arrchie Theatre as well as short plays for Bechdel Fest at Broken Nose Theatre, Paragon Play Festival at Otherworld Theatre Company, and Ripped: The Living Newspaper Festival at American Blues Theater. She assistant directed Pillars of the Community at Strawdog, Roz and Ray at Victory Gardens, Red Handed Otter at A Red Orchid Theatre, A Small Fire at Steep Theatre and Seminar at Haven Theatre Company.

Dramaturgy credits include Once in A Lifetime at Strawdog Theatre and Yankee Tavern at American Blues Theatre where she also served as Community Services Coordinator from 2013-2015. She's recently returned from Washington DC where she had the opportunity to work on Intelligence at Arena Stage as part of the SDCF observership program. This summer, she returned to her musical theater roots to choreograph Singin' in the Rain, and Guys and Dolls for the Skokie Park District Summer on Broadway. Arianna is an Associate Member of the SDC.

Route 66 Theatre Company www.route66theatre.org.

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