Bridgette Dutta Portman

@bdportman.bsky.social

Playwright, author, educator. 📚 💫 www.bridgetteduttaportman.com

"[Pilgrimage] makes you leave the theater thinking about the women in your life — whom you’d trust with your darkest secrets, whom you could ask to join you on the journey of a lifetime or for care in your neediest hour." Thank you @lilyjaniak.bsky.social for your review in the Chronicle! #newplay

Review: ‘Pilgrimage’ portrays Muslim women with the complexity they deserve

Golden Thread Productions and Z Space are billing the script as the first world premiere co-written by an Afghan American woman in the United States.

sfchronicle.com

Part of having #OCD is dealing with a lifelong weight of mostly irrational guilt. I think that's why so many of my characters deal with guilt of some kind or another. It's also probably why guilt is the major theme of my #WIP. We write for a lot of reasons. Wrestling with our demons is a major one.