pittsburgh-based theatre director, filmmaker, and visual artist
PRIA DAHIYA
Pria Dahiya is a director, visual artist and writer exploring internet culture and coming-of-age narratives through literary adaptation, movement and media design.
January 2025, she directed the world premiere of My Sister’s Lipstick by Anna King Skeels at the New Hazlett Theater. November 2024, she directed the annual benefit concert Suite Life for Kelly Strayhorn Theatre. She was a Kelly Strayhorn Freshworks Artist-In-Residence in Fall 2023, and also served as assistant director for the premiere of Adil Mansoor's Amm(i)gone at KST's Alloy Studios in 2022.
She has directed several adapted works including Earth Angel (adapted from Madeline Cash), Anything Good Makes Me Want to Die (adapted from Ottessa Moshfegh), Poem of the End (adapted from Marina Tsvetaeva), as well as Love and Money (Dennis Kelly) and The Bald Soprano (Eugene Ionesco). She is the co-artistic director of New Product Company, a pittsburgh-based theatre company creating boundary-pushing, multimedia theatre exploring the tension between IRL and URL. She is a proud member of the Pittsburgh Public's inaugural Critical Insight Fellowship cohort, where she writes theatre criticism, and regularly contributes visual arts criticism to Petrichor, Pittsburgh's independent arts magazine.