Tanuja Devi Jagernauth

Eventbrite • 6th May 2023

APIDA Arts Festival Presents: Playwriting 101 with Tanuja Devi Jagernauth

I'll be teaching a Playwriting workshop at the Goodman on May 6th from 1-3 pm! This event is part of the free APIDA Arts Festival: Celebrating the Creativity of Asian, Pacific Island, and Desi/South Asian Americans in Chicago, May 5 - 7, 2023. The...

18th April 2023

Best of PlayGround-Chicago – PlayGround-Chicago

My short play, MOSQUITOS, was selected as one of the season's best! MASK UP and come thru! Help celebrate the best writers and short works from PlayGround-Chicago’s first season! The Best of PlayGround Gala features a special presentation of six...

6th March 2023

Monday Night PlayGround – PlayGround-Chicago

My short play, THE CHECK IN, an adaptation of a critical moment from the Bhagavad Gita, was one of March's six presented plays.

Truthout • 16th December 2022

Navigating Grief and Cultivating Hope at the End of 2022

“How do we practice deep and reciprocal relationships as resistance to our culture of transactionalism and extraction?” asks Tanuja Jagernauth. In this year-end episode of “Movement Memos,” Jagernauth and host Kelly Hayes discuss the cultivation of...

22nd November 2022

November 21st Monday Night PlayGround Playbill – PlayGround

My short play, MOSQUITOS, was chosen for Playground Chicago's December 5th's presentation! If you want to check it out, find tickets here!

Lifeline Theatre • 13th September 2022

Adapting to Stage Developmental Workshop & Showcase

Tanuja Devi Jagernauth’s work-in-development, Chakora and the Churile runs Saturday, September 24 at 4:00pm CDT via Zoom. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here or at the Lifeline Theatre Box Office, 773.761.4477. This adaptation is the first of...

11th September 2022

2022-23 Monday Night PlayGround Series – PlayGround-Chicago

PlayGround has announced a company of 144 writers who will take part in the 2022-23 edition of its signature Monday Night PlayGround (MNP) series across four cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.

Truthout • 24th June 2022

To Build the World We Desire, We Must Dream Deeply Together

“Get with your people … and just take a second to appreciate yourself for the ways in which you are surviving a truly unprecedented time,” says organizer Tanuja Jagernauth. In this episode of “Movement Memos,” Jagernauth and host Kelly Hayes discuss...

Truthout • 26th May 2022

Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together.

“It’s time to get clarity and we can actively create that clarity. This is the time to find our alignment,” says activist Tanuja Jagernauth. In these challenging times, how are activists and organizers holding onto hope? In this episode of “Movement...

Facebook • 24th April 2022

Next-Gen Theatre Industry Events: Investing in Healthier Theatre Practices

BroadwayWorld.com • 10th March 2022

Lifeline Theatre's Announces Playwrights for First Writer's Workshop and Showcase

Lifeline Theatre has selected two incredible playwrights to take part in its inaugural Adapting to Stage Developmental Workshop and Showcase. Over the next 5 months, Sandra Jackson-Opoku and Tanuja Devi Jagernauth will work in tandem members of...

Chicago Food Policy Action Council • 9th March 2022

17th Chicago Food Policy Summit Keynote: Moving like mycelium to dismantle white supremacy culture

~~~~~~ This session was presented during the Chicago Food Justice Summit, held virtually between February 23-25, 2022. The theme was Collective Care, highlighting stories of the revolutionary acts of care and kindness that took place in our...

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.

Healing Justice Dialogue Series DePaul • 23rd October 2020

Healing Justice, Mutual Aid, and Abolitionist Feminism: Sangeetha Ravichandran and Tanuja Jagernauth

This event is part the of Healing, Justice and Dialogue Series over 2020-2021. Tanuja Devi Jagernauth is a playwright and practitioner of transformative and healing justice. When she is not creating spaces for mutual aid, collective creation, and...