Tanuja Devi Jagernauth

Chicago Reader • 17th December 2021

Prop Thtr finds new places and plans

We're still out here, developing FAUST! I am grateful for the chance to get grounded in community in 2022 and allow this piece to develop and evolve as everything else is also shifting and transforming. "Faust is back on the Prop radar, but this time...

13th October 2021

Tanuja Devi Jagernauth | New Play Exchange

Access some of my plays in process on the New Play Exchange!

13th October 2021

AMERICAN THEATRE | Bylines Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel with interview support by Tanuja Jagernauth

Behind and beyond recent reckonings at the city’s theatres are countless tales of exploitation, harm, and silencing—but it’s not too late for change.

YouTube • 21st February 2021

Jackalope's 11th annual Living Newspaper Festival, Ep. 4 – SUN ON ICE

All proceeds go to Black Abolitionist Network: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising...​ Sun on Ice written by Tanuja Devi Jagernauth. Directed by Arti Ishak, featuring Eric Gerard and Wardell Julius Clark. Inspired by the article:...

yumpu.com • 23rd February 2021

understory quarterly issue #1: WINTER

:::understory::: is a (humble, new, experimental) quarterly zine rooted in the the values and practices of Healing Justice, Disability Justice, Transformative Justice, PIC Abolition, Environmental Justice, and Traditional East Asian Medicine.

JAHAJEE SISTERS • 20th November 2020

Healing & Transformative Justice in this Political Moment

This plenary is from our 2020 Indo-Caribbean Women’s Empowerment Summit, "Building Our Future: Love & Solidarity as the Pathway to Justice" and took place on November 21, 2020. It features social justice leaders: Piper Anderson, President of Create...

Truthout • 3rd November 2020

Having a Meltdown? Let's Process This Electoral Nightmare Together.

Need a break from doom scrolling? Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth interrupt the aggravating suspense of Election Day with a grounding conversation about learning to inhabit uncertainty.

AMERICAN THEATRE • 16th September 2020

The Subtext: Making Space With Tanuja Jagernauth

This month Brian talks to the Chicago-based playwright, activist, and healer about the transition points in her life and career. This month on the Subtext, Brian Zoom-chats with Chicago-based playwright Tanuja Jagernauth. Tanuja is an Indo-Caribbean...

Sixty Inches From Center • 18th July 2020

Beyond the Page: Tanuja Devi Jagernauth

“Beyond the Page” digs into the process and practice of writers and artists who work at the intersection of literary arts and other fields. For this installment, I interviewed Tanuja Devi Jagernauth — Indo-Caribbean playwright, dramaturg, organizer —...

BECKETT'S BABIES • 12th July 2020

64. INTERVIEW: Tanuja Jagernauth Returns!

Based in Chicago, Tanuja Jagernauth is an Indo-Caribbean playwright, dramaturg, and ceramic artist who believes in the necessity of creation during times of destruction. We talked with Tanuja a few months ago about her theatrical work, and we have her...

Truthout • 13th April 2020

We Need a Riot of Empathy

Kelly Hayes talks with Tanuja Jagernauth about collective grief and resisting the normalization of mass death.

chicagotribune.com • 4th August 2019

‘Still/Here: Manifestos for Joy and Survival’ asks audiences to imagine Chicago’s post-apocalyptic future, and who will remain

Free Street Theater’s “Still/Here: Manifestos for Joy and Survival” begins at the end; in the opening of the show, the apocalypse has arrived in Chicago.

BECKETT'S BABIES • 10th September 2019

32. INTERVIEW: Theater is Life-Shifting with Tanuja Jagernauth

Playwright, Dramaturg, Ceramic Artist and former Acupuncturist Tanuja Jagernauth join us on this episode to share her truth on theater and supporting communities through the arts. She also explores the ideas from her current research on fascism to...

Chicago Sun-Times • 26th July 2019

Free Street Theater marks 50 years of community-centric, collaborative theater in Chicago

Scapi Magazine • 19th March 2019

How To Pick A Lock: A Conversation With Tanuja Jagernauth, Yasmin Mikhaiel, and Tara Branham.

On January 15th, 2019 Scapi Magazine sat down with Tanuja Jagernauth, Yasmin Mikhaiel, and Tara Branham of How To Pick A Lock to talk about how to use Prison Abolition as a foundation for a play, pragmatism as a metaphor, and collaboration. Also....

22nd October 2018

Our Perspective: Asian American Play Readings

The Asian Pacific American (APA) population is seriously under-represented on stage. “Our Perspective: Asian American Play Readings” is a staged play reading series intended to provide inspiration, space, and audiences for Midwest APA playwrights,...

5th September 2018

‘Pillowtalk’ Examines Love Under Oppression

Pillowtalk presented at Victory Gardens Theatre was a highly moving, visceral depiction of two complex and vibrant individuals striving to lead successful lives and love one another within the constraints of white supremacist, heteropatriarchal,...

29th June 2018

A Vibrant, Technicolor ‘Hamlet’ Helmed by Monty Cole

Monty Cole’s Hamlet is a technicolor reinvigoration of Shakespeare’s tragedy and a powerful call to action. I have never seen a production of Hamlet or any other play by Shakespeare. While I have read my fair share of work by Shakespeare, I have...

HowlRound Theatre Commons • 7th April 2017

The Need for Cultivating Theatre Critics of Color

This article was written by Tanuja Jagernauth and Regina Victor, who are both on staff at a professional writing center called . Together, they are curating a conversation and action panel called “Cultivating Critics of Color” at Chicago Dramatists on...