Ranbir Sidhu
Contact Info
Playwright accepts commissions.
Bio
Ranbir Sidhu is a playwright and novelist. His plays have been developed and supported by MCC Theater, LaMama ETC, the Prelude Festival, Disha Theater, the Matrix Theater, the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He is a past winner of the Pushcart Prize in fiction and is a 2008 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction. He is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights Coalition.
Plays
Full Length Plays
True East…
2m, 1F
A New Delhi hotel room, India. The present day.
drama
When Nina, a young Indian-American woman accepts a journalist’s offer of a trip to India, she finds herself confronted with lies she has lived with for years
Sangeet
cast of 4
London, 1980s
drama
Sangeet is a play about London in the 1980s. Thatcher is in power, everyone is drunk, and Harp wants to marry Vicki. The problem: both their fathers seriously don’t like the idea. His is an ex-strongman from India, hers is a nurse’s aide distinctly lacking any bedside manners.
Conquistadors
cast of 5
New York. Now.
comedy/drama
When Anu and Hari married, they told each other they’d be the Sid and Nancy of Indian couples. No rules, no roads, no borders. Four years later, it’s his birthday. Dinner is Wendy’s takeout. She buys the sex toys, he gets the pot. For two years they’ve been trying to have a baby. The doctor tells her tonight is the night.
Grants and Fellowships
Edward F. Albee Playwriting Fellowship, The Barn, New York
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swingspace Award
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Atlantic Center for the Arts associate artist-in-residence
Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts writer-in-residence
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council writer-in-residence