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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	Chaudhuri was previously married to [[Manish Choudhary (actor)\|Manish Choudhary]], an actor. During marriage they collaborated on many of her productions, such as ''On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning'' and ''Arabian Nights''. Their former group, called Performers at Work, started in 1997 and primarily worked on translating text into visuals. The group has produced works such as ''Siddhartha'' by Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf's ''Orlando'' and their very own, ''The Mahabharata Project''.<ref name=HT>{{cite news\|last=Singh\|first=Shalini\|title=Double act\|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/views/double-act/article1-384604.aspx\|access-date=27 November 2013\|newspaper=Hindustan Times\|date=27 February 2009}}</ref>		Chaudhuri was previously married to [[Manish Choudhary (actor)\|Manish Choudhary]], an actor. During marriage they collaborated on many of her productions, such as ''On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning'' and ''Arabian Nights''. Their former group, called Performers at Work, started in 1997 and primarily worked on translating text into visuals. The group has produced works such as ''Siddhartha'' by Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf's ''Orlando'' and their very own, ''The Mahabharata Project''.<ref name=HT>{{cite news\|last=Singh\|first=Shalini\|title=Double act\|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/views/double-act/article1-384604.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203151141/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/views/double-act/article1-384604.aspx\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=3 December 2013\|access-date=27 November 2013\|newspaper=Hindustan Times\|date=27 February 2009}}</ref>

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'''Zuleikha Chaudhari''' is a theatre director and lighting designer based in New Delhi and [[Mumbai]], India. She is also a Visiting Faculty (Scene Work) at The Dramatic Art and Design Academy, New Delhi.

She was awarded the [[Sangeet Natak Academy]], YUVA PURUSKAR in 2007<ref name= Maddox>{{cite news|last=Maddox|first=Georgina|title=Voices in my Head|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/voices-in-my-head/689713/|access-date=20 November 2013|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=29 September 2010}}</ref><ref name=SNA>{{cite web|title=Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar|url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/yuva2006.htm|work=Sangeet Natak Academi|publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi|access-date=26 November 2013}}</ref> and Charles Wallace India Trust Award, 2001/2002.

==Education and early life==
Chaudhari majored in Theatre Directing and Light Design from Bennington College in [[Vermont]], USA in 1995.<ref name=Timeout>{{cite news|last=Nagree|first=Zeenat|title=Drama queen|url=http://www.timeoutmumbai.net/art/features/drama-queen|access-date=20 November 2013|newspaper=TimeOut Mumbai|date=17 March 2011}}</ref> She is the granddaughter of [[Ebrahim Alkazi]], eminent Indian theatre director and daughter of [[Amal Allana]], theatre director and former Chairperson of [[National School of Drama]], New Delhi.<ref name="Delhi Compass">{{cite news|last=Editor|title=In her own right: Zuleikha Chaudhari on being 100 per cent authentic|url=http://blogs.thehindu.com/delhi/?p=1204|access-date=20 November 2013|newspaper=Delhi Compass, Delhi|date=30 August 2008}}</ref><ref name="Mumbai Theatre Guide">{{cite news|last=Punjani|first=Deepa|title=Zuleikha Chaudhari|url=http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/interviews/15-zuleikha-chaudhari-interview.asp|access-date=26 November 2013|newspaper=Mumbai Theatre Guide}}</ref> She notes about her prominent lineage, "Contrary to popular belief I did not grow up with rehearsals all around me. As children, we never watched that much theatre. Maybe, because we didn't show that much interest. I arrived at it on my own."<ref name="Delhi Compass" />

==Work==
Her experiments with space and narrative widely informs her works. Her work investigates the nature of performance in itself and explores the relationship between the text and the performer, between the performer and space, and the role of the spectator in the performative experience.<ref name="Timeout" /><ref name="Mumbai Theatre Guide" /> She describes her works as "an exploration of space and the role that space plays in the construction and experience of narratives – whether it is the space of the human body, or the space of the place within which the performance is happening."<ref name=Timeout /> Her first major theatre production was '[[Roland Schimmelpfennig]]'s Arabian Night', an experimental site-specific installation and performance supported by Max Mueller Bhavan in association with Khoj International Artists' Association.<ref name=Khoj>{{cite web|title=Arabian Night|url=http://www.khojworkshop.org/node/1603|work=Khoj|publisher=Khoj International Artists' Association|access-date=26 November 2013}}</ref> The production opened in Khoj Studios, New Delhi, in 2006 and was presented again in Seoul Performing Arts Festival, [[Seoul]], 2007.<ref name=Zuleikha>{{cite web|title=Zuleikha Chaudhuri|url=http://www.khojworkshop.org/user/zuleikha_chaudhari|work=Khoj International Artists' Association|publisher=Khoj International Artists' Association|access-date=26 November 2013}}</ref>
[[File:Zuleikha Chaudhuri.jpg|thumb|Zuleikha Chaudhuri during the Hans Ulrich Obrist Khoj Marathon, 2011.]]

She continued this style of site-specific installation and performance art with her next project, 'On Seeing', based on [[Haruki Murakami]]'s short story, On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning, presented in 2008 at Khoj Studios, New Delhi<ref name="Delhi Compass" /><ref name="IFA">{{cite web | url=http://www.ifa.de/en/visual-arts/ifa-galleries/past-exhibitions/khoj/zuleikha-chaudhari.html | title=in India and far beyond: Khoj International Artists' Association | publisher=Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) | work=ifa.de/ | access-date=26 November 2013}}</ref> and different theatre festivals and at Essl Museum, Vienna in 2010.<ref name= "IFA" /><ref name="Essl">{{cite web | url=http://www.essl.museum/en/exhibitions/exhibition?article_id=1367496239735&event_id=1368177003838 | title=India Awakens: Under the Banyan tree | publisher=Essl Museum, Vienna | work=essl.museum/en | access-date=26 November 2013}}</ref> Set in three rooms at Khoj Studios, New Delhi, this performance required the audience to move with the actors.<ref name="Delhi Compass" /> Chaudhuri explains about this unique performance, "When the performance and audience move – the text gets fragmented. I wanted to explore that connection."<ref name="Delhi Compass" />

Chaudhuri's project 'Some Stage Directions for Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman' based on Norwegian playwright [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s penultimate play, [[John Gabriel Borkman]] with texts by the [[Raqs Media Collective]] was commissioned for the Delhi Ibsen Festival, 2009.<ref name="Maddox" /><ref name="Zuleikha" />

Chaudhuri's later work consisted of installations developed from her stage productions. Her next project, 'Propositions: On text and Space', a take-off from her earlier stage production, 'Some Stage Directions for Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman', developed in collaboration with Khoj Studios' Artist Residency programme in 2010, does away with the actors and is translated through space and texts from the play.<ref name="Maddox" /><ref name="Timeout" /><ref name="Mumbai Theatre Guide" /> Her next project, 'Propositions: On text and Space II', a light and text installation, based on texts from Roland Schimmelpfennig's play 'Before/Afterwards', opened at Project 88, Mumbai, in collaboration with Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai in 2011. Devoid of any performers, the installation of the play, investigates the nature of narrative in text, sound, space and light.<ref name="Mumbai Theatre Guide" /><ref name="Project 88">{{cite web|title=Propositions- on Text and Space II|url=http://www.project88.in/individual-exhibition.php?exhibition=EXBTN0043|work=Project 88|publisher=Project 88, Mumbai|access-date=27 November 2013}}</ref>

Her latest project, 'Seen at Secunderabad', in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective, was a multi-media performance that attempted to deconstruct a photograph taken by colonial war photographer Felice Beato in 1857. The project premiered in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels in 2011.<ref name=KFDA>{{cite web|title=Brussels: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, 2011|url=http://archive.kfda.be/2011/en/projects/seen-secundrabad|work=kfda.be|publisher=Kunstenfestivaldesarts|access-date=27 November 2013}}</ref><ref name=Flanderstoday>{{cite web|last=a|first=a|title=The Kunstenfestivaldesarts is greater than the sum of its part|url=http://www.flanderstoday.eu/arts/art-and-soul|work=www.flanderstoday.eu|publisher=Flanders today|access-date=27 November 2013}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Chaudhuri was previously married to [[Manish Choudhary (actor)|Manish Choudhary]], an actor. During marriage they collaborated on many of her productions, such as ''On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning'' and ''Arabian Nights''. Their former group, called Performers at Work, started in 1997 and primarily worked on translating text into visuals. The group has produced works such as ''Siddhartha'' by Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf's ''Orlando'' and their very own, ''The Mahabharata Project''.<ref name=HT>{{cite news|last=Singh|first=Shalini|title=Double act|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/views/double-act/article1-384604.aspx|access-date=27 November 2013|newspaper=Hindustan Times|date=27 February 2009}}</ref>

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