How To Succeed As An Ethnically Ambiguous Actor

Written by & Starring Zenobia Shroff

Directed by Arpita Mukherjee & Molly Houlahan

Planet Connections Festival & Castillo Theatre, 2016

Written by and starring Zenobia Shroff, a SAG award nominee for The Big Sick, How to Succeed as an Ethnically Ambiguous Actor details Shroff’s astonishing, hilarious, and heart-breaking journey from Bombay to New York as she plays over 25 characters. Populating her own life story with casting directors, bosses, lovers, and family, Shroff explores the sacrifice, absurdity, and pain of being a woman of color pursuing a life in the arts.  The production first opened as one of the official selections of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, where it ran to sold-out crowds, received rave reviews, and yielded Zenobia Shroff and Arpita Mukherjee nominations for awards in Outstanding Solo Performance and Outstanding Direction. From there it transferred to an acclaimed Off-Broadway run at Castillo Theatre.