Polishing a play at the Banff Centre

Wed. May. 13, 2026

Award-winning poet Dr. Sharanpal Ruprai, Associate Professor and Chair of UWinnipeg’s Women's and Gender Studies, has been accepted into the highly competitive Playwrights Lab at the Banff Centre in Alberta, where she will continue the development of her new theatrical work, Bollywood Basement Boutique, over two weeks this month. 

Already a successful poet, Dr. Ruprai’s project is a new creative direction that began in 2019 and 2020 when she served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.

To learn more about Dr. Ruprai's play and the Playwrights Lab, read the full UW News article