The purpose of the trip was to trace her family history in Punjab and meet with other Indian novelists, poets, artists, and cultural sociologists.

Kapil's play Gotama (2006), written at the request of director Andy Kim and designer Masanari Kawahara, opened at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis.

At the same time, her play The Adventures of Hanuman, King of the Monkeys debuted at Stepping Stone Theatre for Youth Development in St. Paul.

Hanuman is a Bollywood-style musical based on the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, told from a child's perspective.

[13] In 2007, Kapil also directed and co-wrote the play Messy Utopia with Seema Sueko, Velina Hasu-Houston, Janet Allard, and Naomi Iizuka.

[17] In 2016, Kapil wrote an adaptation of Mitali Perkin's novel Rickshaw Girl for its run at the Children's Creativity Museum Theater in San Francisco.

The play is written by Israel Horovitz in 1976, and it tells the story of a group of immigrants in an ESL class.

[22] In 2011, Kapil directed an all-female, all-deaf production of Gruesome Playground Injuries at Mixed Blood.

[23] In 2015, she directed the world premiere of Dean Poyner's Stepping Out of the River at Dawn at Mixed Blood Theatre.

The play, inspired by a photograph entitled "Young Negress Stepping Out of the River at Dawn," tells the story of a Rwandan couple, Alyze and Martin, living in America and trying to honor tradition with their wedding.

[27][21] In 2008, she acted in Distracted at Mixed Blood, a play by Lisa Loomer addressing how people with ADD and ADHD are treated.

[33] It takes its name from the character Maggie, who is trying to translate the word “lovers” to her female love interest, Vic, in ASL.

[36] Agnes is a Liberian immigrant and one of two health care workers who attend to Ella, an old woman with rheumatoid arthritis.

[42] Kapil's Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy consists of Brahman/i, a one-hijra stand-up comedy show, The Chronicles of Kalki, and Shiv.

[34] Brahman/i and The Chronicles of Kalki received an unprecedented double nomination for the James Tait Black Prize (from the University of Edinburgh).

CrossRoads was launched in 2013 by the Time Warner Foundation to sponsor plays about Orange County's cultural diversity.

The play was showcased in the 2015 Pacific Playwrights Festival before its debut in the 2016-2017 season at Mixed Blood and South Coast Repertory.

[26] The protagonist, Siddhatta Gotama, is a wealthy prince until he meets the sick and poor and is moved by compassion to give away all his possessions.

[56] He sets out on a journey in the search of his own humanity and peace and in the process becomes the Buddha.The play is narrated from the perspective of Channa, the prince's charioteer.

[59] Cirkus Kalashikov is a 10-minute play inspired by Kapil's father and the stories he told her about the three jumpers and one dog he killed while he worked as a subway driver.