Professor Emerita Bulbul Chakraborty honored with prestigious theater award
February 4, 2026
Bulbul Chakraborty, Enid and Nathan Ancell Professor of Physics, emerita, has received an Obie Award for her performance in “Rheology,” a critically acclaimed off-broadway play she collaborated on with her son, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, an award-winning playwright and director.
The Obie Awards honor the “highest caliber of off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theater to recognize brave work, champion new material, and advance careers in theater.”
The award for Chakraborty commends her deeply personal turn in “Rheology,” in which she “plunges nakedly, beautifully into her own grief through song, in an expression that is pure divinity.”
Learn more about her exploration of theater with her son here.
