The Indian Edit

Ep. 73: Playing one of America's Founding Fathers on Broadway - breaking gender and race barriers with '1776' perfomer Sushma Saha


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“Pan-gender to me means any gender expression that exists right now, I identify with in some way. So there are days where I feel more masculine, I feel more feminine, I feel non-binary. It depends on where I'm at internally. I don't like to limit myself to one gender. So pan-gender feels the most accurate.” — Sushma Saha

Energetic and inspiring, my latest guest Sushma Saha is one you don’t want to miss! Sushma shares coming out stories, acting drama, and what it was like playing a founding father in Roundabout Theatre’s new production of ‘1776’ opening now on Broadway!

Listen now below or at www.theindianedit.com and please take a second to rate us wherever you’re listening so the voices of these inspiring women can be heard all over the world!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 73:

Find Sushma on instagram

Buy tickets for 1776 on Broadway here

Read a terrific write-up of the play in the New York Times here

BOOKS:

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

1776 by David McCullough

Questions? Comments? Get in touch @theindianeditpodcast on Instagram !

Special thanks to Varun Dhabe and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

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