Isheeta Ganguly

Isheeta Ganguly is an Indian-American singer, playwright, director.

Early life and education Ganguly was born in Kolkata, India and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, USA as well as Turkey, Japan, and Indonesia. As a child, she began to cultivate her passion for Tagore's music through LP records until she began her formal training in Rabindra Sangeet from Suchitra Mitra.

Isheeta learnt the art of musical theatre curation and direction from Suchitra Mitra and further honed her music and performing artistry as an undergraduate at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She has done her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University Shantanu Moitra and Swanand Kirkire created folk-pop tracks on the multi-lingual album, Damaru, which include Aona and Sanjhari De Bat.

Ganguly was a part of several multi-cultural productions and performing arts groups at Brown University and collaborated with the Battery Dance company and Jonathan Hollander on Tagore fusion and ballet performance at the Florence Gould Hall in New York City in 2000. Thereafter she joined hands with a renowned danseuse Mallika Sarabhai

Ganguly also began performing annually at the NYSIFF (New York India South Asian Festival) for stalwarts such as James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, Martin Scorsese, Harry Belafonte and others.

Ganguly has collaborated with Tanushree Shankar for Chiranthan with a voice-over done by Amitabh Bachchan. In January 2014, she performed at Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata, with Priyanshu Chatterjee.

Theatre As a playwright and theatre director, she has written and directed various plays, including Sundays with Chitra and Chaitali, Three Women, Shakuntala Awaits.

Her first musical theatre – Three Women (based on Tagore's sister-in-law Kadambari Devi) is a dramatic comedy which created a sensation in both India and overseas.

Her third production Shakuntala Awaits, features Indian American actors Samrat Chakrabarti, Purva Bedi and is scheduled to be featured in an off broadway run in January 2022 at the Here Theatre in New York City.

Films As a screenwriter and director, as of 2021 Ganguly had two films in development in the US which are adaptations of her plays, Three Women and Shakuntala Awaits.

Discography Albums Year Albums's Name LabelArtist(s) 2007 Nutan Jouboner Dut Saregama Isheeta Ganguly 2007 Hits Of 2007 Tagore Songs Saregama Isheeta Ganguly 2008 Kabi Pranam SaregamaSaheb Chatterjee, Isheeta Ganguly, Jayati Chakraborty, Mita Haque 2008 Pather Prodip Jwale Saregama Isheeta Ganguly 2009 Ghare Baire T-Series Isheeta Ganguly 2010 Damaru I Feel Your Rhythm Times Music Isheeta Ganguly 2011 Patriotic Songs Of Rabindranath Tagore Saregama Isheeta Ganguly, Kanika Banerjee 2017 Songs On Winter Saregama Isheeta Ganguly 2020 Jana Gana Mana Times Music Isheeta Ganguly, Dr. Shashi Tharoor

Personal life She lives in Mumbai with her husband and two sons.