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The monologue workbook
Twelve exercises I use with students and before my own auditions: breath, text work, and a page to write in after each one.
ActorKolkata, IndiaBengali stage and screen
Debjani Sengupta
On stage
The next performance
A small room and a short set. Come say hello after.
Saturday, November 14 · 7:00 PM
Save my spotActor · Kolkata, India
Twenty years of Bengali stage, ten of film.
I act in Bengali theatre and film, and teach monologue work on the side. My audience is theatre-goers, film lovers and drama students, mostly in Bengal and Bangladesh.
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Rates
- A post and three stories
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- A day on an ad or a short film
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Press
- Prekshagriha QuarterlyThe actor who can hold a bare stage alone2026
- The Tram Line ReviewA Lady Macbeth with nowhere to hide2026
- Cinema PathshalaSix films, one quiet performance in a lane2025
- Maidan DispatchRehearsal diary: a month in a bare hall2025
For directors, festivals and press
Work with me
Tell me the brand, the date and the city. I reply within a few days.
Stage and film roles
from ₹300,000Theatre companies, directors and casting teams. I read scripts in Bengali, Hindi and English.
Brand partnerships
from ₹90,000Posts and stories for things I would carry to rehearsal.
Workshops and masterclasses
from ₹120,000Monologue and voice work for drama schools and festivals.
Press and festival panels
Interviews and panels, in Bengali, Hindi or English.
Watch
Stage, screen and the rehearsal hall
Recordings of the plays, the short films I have been in and the diary I keep while we rehearse. The long versions go out in the letter first.
Shop
Everything in the shop
Mask tee
A soft cotton tee, printed to order.
Pointe line mug
An 11 oz glossy mug, dishwasher safe.
Shoe pal hoodie
A heavy, warm hoodie, printed to order.
About
I’m Debjani. I act in Bengali, on stage first and on screen when asked.
I grew up in Kolkata, studied at a drama school near College Street and joined a theatre company at twenty-two. I have been on stage for twenty years and in films for ten, mostly in Bengali and sometimes in Hindi and English.
Today I keep a rehearsal diary, teach monologue work to anyone who asks and play about sixty performances a year. If you come, wait by the stage door after; I always come out.
— Debjani Sengupta
Free letter, once a month
Notes from the rehearsal hall
A page from the rehearsal diary, one monologue exercise to try that month and new dates a day before anyone else.