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Yoga/Dance
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Vagina Monologues In 2002 at the Kripalu Center
for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA. Megha produced,
directed, and performed in Eve Ensler's extraordinary
play for the empowerment of all women and girls, The
Vagina Monologues. 
See what The Emma Willard
Bulletin has to say about Megha and the Vagina Monologues.
If
you are not familiar with Eve's great work and contribution
to humankind, please visit the V-Day
website. Eve's mission is stop the violence against
all women and girls, and she is using The Vagina Monologues
to do just that. Megha's production was a big community
fund raiser, raising over $5000 for a local women's group
dedicated to ending domstic violence. Five percent of
the sales went directly to help the women who suffered
so dreadfully under the Taliban regime.
 For
Megha, this production of the Vagina Monologues represented
a culmination of her lifework in theatre, yoga and movement,
as well as her need to do something tangible as a statement
of peace on her aching planet.
Being
the western MA representative for V-Day provides an ongoing
forum for Megha to give voice to the empowerment of women,
as well as bringing women to a greater love and appreciation
of their bodies and lives.
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 Directing
Shakespeare for Children In the 1980s Megha
founded her own children's Shakespeare festival, The Pondside
Players. Children ages 8-15 performed in full length Shakespeare
plays around (and sometimes in!) a pond in Lenox, MA.
For
the last three summers, Megha has directed Shakespeare
plays for children at the Perseverance
Theatre in Juneau, Alaska to rave reviews.
In
2000 she directed Midsummer Night's Dream, 2001 The Tempest,
and in 2002 she tackled the controversial Merchant of
Venice.
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Acting
Shakespeare Megha has been a great lover and
performer of Shakespeare since high school. After graduating
with a BA in Dramatic Arts from Mills College, Megha spent
two years as a resident with The New Shakespeare Company
of San Francisco, Megha performed in five plays in repertory,
including the all women's roles in As You Like It. She performed
as a resident actress with The Fortune Theatre in Dunedin,
New Zealand as well as with the Florida Studio Theatre in
Sarasota, Fl. Her primary director and teacher is Tina Packer,
founder and director of Shakespeare and Company in Lenox,
MA. Megha was a resident actor with Shakespeare and Co,
still occasionally performing there. She returns June 26-28,
2003 to perform in a dance/theatre piece called: DibbleDance,
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