Arpita Mukherjee is an award winning NYC based director and writer. Arpita directed Running, a short film written by and starring Danny Pudi, which won Best Short Film at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival and has been featured in New Filmmakers LA, The Indian Film Festival of LA, the New York Indian Film Festival, CAAMFest and many others. Arpita won the Filmfare award for the screenplay for the Disney+ Hotstar film Gulmohar with director Rahul Chittella. Arpita has developed projects for WIIP, AMC, Sony, and an upcoming Netflix feature directed by Mira Nair, with music by Pharrell Williams.
Arpita recently made her Broadway debut as the resident director of The Kite Runner. Arpita previously directed Bollywood Kitchen by Sri Rao (Geffen Playhouse), House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar (San Diego Rep), and Eh Dah: Questions for my Father by Aya Aziz (Next Door @ New York Theatre Workshop). Arpita has developed work at the Public Theater, WP Theater, Roundabout Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, and O’Neill Theater Center, amongst others. She is a 2021 Resident Director at the Drama League, a 2018 - 2020 Women’s Project Lab Member and a 2018 Eugene O’ Neill National Directing Fellows and an alumni of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
Arpita is the Co-Book Writer of Monsoon Wedding, The Musical, which recently had its NYC premiere at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Arpita is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Hypokrit.