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Sonia Desai

Sonia Desai

Dramaturg and theatre scholar; Director of Literary and Dramaturgy at Center Theatre Group and NAMT Festival of New Musicals committee member.

Sep 15, 2026

4:49
[laughs]
4:50
Um, yeah, this one was one that I just fell into the first time I heard it.
4:56
I couldn't stop listening to how beautiful it was, and I think that was a great entry point, just the artistry of it.
5:04
But I also have a very personal connection to this story.
5:08
I grew up, um, hearing stories of the Ramayan and from my grandma, and it was a big, like, point of connection culturally, and so it felt, there was something that feels very, um, special and that means a lot to me to see that it is being taken seriously in the Western, um, canon and to see that people, like, there is actually a space for this.
5:32
There is a space for people who wanna hear this story, and it is a beautiful, incredible story.

26 MINS LATER

31:17
So that, that's my hope for it.
31:20
Yeah, I agree with what Tad's saying.

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