Maya Chowdhry

Maya Chowdhry (born 1964) is a British playwright, poet and transmedia interactive artist.

[4] Monsoon portrays the return of sisters Jalaarnava and Kavitaa, two second-generation migrant young women, to their parents' birthplace in India.

Influenced by the story of Shikhandi in the Mahabharata, the play dramatizes a gender reversal narrative:[4] a British Indian teenage girl, Esha, is brought up by her parents as a boy.

After a close friend Farooq falls in love with Esha, she reveals herself to him as a girl and is forced to work through her gender identity.

[3] In 2015 Chowdhry collaborated with poet Sarah Hymas on "poetic sculptures" exploring the fragility of life and anthropogenic climate change.