Sheila Bandyopadhyay is a Brooklyn-based actor, director, devisor, Alexander Technique teacher and movement specialist. As a theater maker, Sheila explores performance that incorporates physical story-telling, heightened text, and ensemble work. Sheila has directed new work and self-adapted classics in New York at the Brick, the United Solo Festival (Theater Row), the Tank, the West End Theater, and the 72nd St Theater Lab. Sheila’s original music theater piece rise/fall (music by Nathan Siler) was performed as part of Project Y’s 2019 WIT Festival and her original show In the Empty was produced by Brandeis University. Acting credits include The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare & Company; Dog People (Jesse/Betty) at Great Barrington Public Theatre, Titus Andronicus (The Humanist Project) among others. From 2022-2025 Sheila served as the Director of the Center for Actor Training and was formerly Head of the Professional Training Program at Dell’Arte International and Head of Movement at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Guest Artist/Faculty: California State University Summer Arts, Pace University’s IPE, FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, NYU Gallatin, Middlebury College, Westfield State University, Brandeis University, the Linklater Center, and Emerson College. Sheila is a 2025/2026 Colt Coeur Resident Artist. AEA.