Trina Nileena Banerjee (b. 1981). After completing her MA in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Trina Nileena Banerjee proceeded to complete a Master of Studies (M St.) in English at the University of Oxford. For her PhD, she worked on a history of women in the group theatre movement in Bengal between 1950 and 1980. She has also been researching the interfaces between women’s movements and political theatre in contemporary Manipur for several years. Her essays and reviews on these and other subjects have appeared in national and international journals and several edited volumes. Between 2011 and 2013, she taught at the Theatre and Performance Studies Department at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her research interests include Gender, Performance, Political Theatre, Theories of the Body, Postcolonial Theatre and South Asian History. Her book Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal was published by Oxford University Press (India) in October 2021 and shortlisted for the David Bradby Monograph Prize in 2024 by the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TAPRA) UK, where it received a Special Mention. She is on the editorial board of Theatre Research International and Studies in Theatre and Performance.