South Asian Theatre with Universal Appeal

The Waiting Room

San Jose, June 2019

Produced and Presented by: EnActe Arts

Written By: Tanika Gupta

Director: Noreen Raza, Vinita Sud Belani

A thoughtful yet humorous farce! Priya Banerjee is dead. Dilip Kumar, her Bollywood yester-hero, manifests to escort her to the waiting room to the afterlife. But a few surprises crop up when your run-of-the-mill 53-year-old wife and mother is granted three days to resolve issues with loved ones.

Music Composer: Aalap Desai

Projection Design:  Nima Dehghani

Stage Manager:  Ranjita Chakravarty

Assistant Stage Managers: Suruchi Chandorkar, Ashima Yadav

Sets: Madhav Karhade, Vinita Sud Belani

Costumes:  Namita Vakil

Props: Lori Ann Grass, Hardik Patel

Production: Suman Chandra

Hospitality: Tammy Sharma

Marketing: Keith Stevenson, Nikita Jain, YuMee Jang

Vocal Director: Deepti Warrier

Rehearsal Pianist: Anirudh Iyer and Peter Jeensalute

Cast: Sanjay Kumar, Puneet, Hitesh Maidasani, Tannishtha Mukherjee, Dilip Ratnam, Noreen Raza

Playbill:

Sponsored by:

Palo Alto Networks

Jupiter Research Foundation

Nutanix

Accenture

Sunera Technologies

Xoriant

Multicoreware

Shasta Foods

Lasya Art

Mantra India

Chaat Bhavan

Institute for South Asia Studies UC Berkeley

Radio DeHottie Media Mahima