Shayok Misha Chowdhury is a many-tentacled writer and director, born in India, based in Brooklyn. In 2023, he directed the premiere of his playwriting debut, Public Obscenities, at Soho Rep, a co-production with NAATCO. The bilingual play in Bangla and English was named one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, earned Misha a Whiting Award for playwriting and an Obie Award for directing, and went on to encore runs at Woolly Mammoth and Theatre for a New Audience. He recently wrote, directed, and performed in Rheology, a collaboration with his physicist mother, which premiered at The Bushwick Starr as a co-pro with HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi and will return this spring to Playwrights Horizons before traveling to REDCAT in LA. Misha also directed Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot and Jesse Eisenberg's The Ziegfield Files at Studio Seaview, and a revival of Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musical, Gospel at Colonus, at Little Island. He is a recipient of a USA Fellowship, a Relentless Award, The Mark O’Donnell Prize, a Princess Grace Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, two Sundance fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship.