Sudipto Chatterjee

Sudipto Chatterjee (; born: 26 July 1964) is an Indian performance scholar actor, playwright and poet of Bengali descent.

Chatterjee's solo performance Man of the Heart, about Lalon Fakir, has received praise.

Career Chatterjee has taught at New York University, Tufts University and University of California, Berkeley in the US, along with Loughborough University in the UK, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences (Calcutta), National School of Drama and the Heritage Academy in India.

He is the artistic director of Spectactors, a Kolkata-based Indian theater group. He was arrested shortly thereafter. Many theatre personalities have condemned the incident and rejected Sudipto's defense.

Books

The Colonial Staged: theatre in colonial Calcutta (Seagull and the University of Chicago Press, 2007)