Deepali Gupta is a performance artist, composer, and playwright. Her work circulates ideas surrounding madness and creativity as they relate to the colonized and feminized body. She is the daughter of Kashmiri and Bengali immigrants, and writes in (dis)order to upheave and unravel both lived and inherited traumas. Her art is made in an effort to enact transformational justice and reach abolitionist futures. Her work has been presented by The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, Target Margin Theater, and The Poetry Project. She has collaborated with theater and media companies such as Piehole, New Saloon, and Tender Claws on acclaimed and award-winning projects; including Ski End, Minor Character, and The Under Presents. She is an Affiliated Artist with Target Margin Theater, and a member of the New Georges Jam.