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Barriers takes place four months after 9/11 and deals with the Chinese/Pakistani Abbas family, and the loss of their oldest son Nabhil at the World Trade Center. The Abbas's only daughter, Sunima, comes home to announce her pending engagement to a white man. However, Sunima’s news becomes lost in a mire of household problems and she gets trapped in the family loss they never dealt with.  As this multi-cultural family begins to fragment, we begin to piece together the past each one hides, and…See More

Barriers takes place four months after 9/11 and deals with the Chinese/Pakistani Abbas family, and the loss of their oldest son Nabhil at the World Trade Center. The Abbas's only daughter, Sunima, comes home to announce her pending engagement to a white man. However, Sunima’s news becomes lost in a mire of household problems and she gets trapped in the family loss they never dealt with.  As this multi-cultural family begins to fragment, we begin to piece together the past each one hides, and…See More

Barriers takes place four months after 9/11 and deals with the Chinese/Pakistani Abbas family, and the loss of their oldest son Nabhil at the World Trade Center. The Abbas's only daughter, Sunima, comes home to announce her pending engagement to a white man. However, Sunima’s news becomes lost in a mire of household problems and she gets trapped in the family loss they never dealt with.  As this multi-cultural family begins to fragment, we begin to piece together the past each one hides, and…See More

The full length version of the super popular 11-minute musical from Seven.11 Convenience Theater has been commissioned into a full-length pop opera! Don't miss this free workshop of a fantastic piece that shows A Christmas Carol through the eyes of an immigrant searching for the American Dream.TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th at 5pmat ART/NYSouth Oxford Space138 South Oxford StreetThe Great Room(Near BAM -- take the C to Lafayette or the Q,N,R,2,3,4,5 to Atlantic)RSVP to see this special FREE event --…See More

The full length version of the super popular 11-minute musical from Seven.11 Convenience Theater has been commissioned into a full-length pop opera! Don't miss this free workshop of a fantastic piece that shows A Christmas Carol through the eyes of an immigrant searching for the American Dream.TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th at 5pmat ART/NYSouth Oxford Space138 South Oxford StreetThe Great Room(Near BAM -- take the C to Lafayette or the Q,N,R,2,3,4,5 to Atlantic)RSVP to see this special FREE event --…See More

Filmmaker and Desipina Artistic Director Rehana Mirza tackles the taboo of mental illness in the South Asian American community in her writing and directorial feature debut. Hiding Divya provides a rare, realistic and poignant glimpse into the lives of three generations of women - Divya Shah (Madhur Jaffrey) whose bipolar illness has been denied and covered up for years; her rebellious daughter, Linny (Pooja Kumar), who ran away from home as an unwed teen; and Linny's 16-year-old daughter, Jia…See More

Seven.11 weaves together 7, 11-minute plays, all set in a convenience store space. This series was Desipina's signature event, and ran for seven years. This picture features Chris Larkin, Tim Cain and Jay Lee in a play by Eugene Oh titled One Dollar…

Filmmaker and Desipina Artistic Director Rehana Mirza tackles the taboo of mental illness in the South Asian American community in her writing and directorial feature debut. Hiding Divya provides a rare, realistic and poignant glimpse into the lives of three generations of women - Divya Shah (Madhur Jaffrey) whose bipolar illness has been denied and covered up for years; her rebellious daughter, Linny (Pooja Kumar), who ran away from home as an unwed teen; and Linny's 16-year-old daughter, Jia…See More

Filmmaker and Desipina Artistic Director Rehana Mirza tackles the taboo of mental illness in the South Asian American community in her writing and directorial feature debut. Hiding Divya provides a rare, realistic and poignant glimpse into the lives of three generations of women - Divya Shah (Madhur Jaffrey) whose bipolar illness has been denied and covered up for years; her rebellious daughter, Linny (Pooja Kumar), who ran away from home as an unwed teen; and Linny's 16-year-old daughter, Jia…See More