Shrinjita Biswas is a PhD student and a Graduate Fellow in Interdisciplinary Theater Studies. She has a BA in History from Jadavpur University and MA degrees in History and in Arts and Aesthetics, respectively from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her writings have been published in platforms like the Alkazi Foundation publications, Sahapedia, Critical Collective, UPAJ India and Take on Art, amongst others. Before enrolling at UW-Madison she has worked as the Senior Research Assistant at the Alkazi Theatre Archives, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts (New Delhi). She has presented at the New Scholars Forum, International Federation for Theatre Research, (Galway virtual) 2021 and at Performing Performance 2021, amongst other conferences. Shrinjita engages as a script writer and experiments with the intersection of performance with mediums like film, sound and photography. Her works have been part of the Asian Women’s Film Festival (2019) and her short-documentary film, ‘Theatre Space of Adishakti: Practices and Techniques’ have been screened for the Sahapedia Film Fest (2020). Her research interests entail gender and performance, political theatre, South Asian studies and Indian performance cultures and feminist discourses in theater, performance and new media. Shrinjita has been trained in the Classical Manipuri Dance form for fourteen years.