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Sujata Avasthi  

In the play she is the bubbly, sparkling and talkative Salma who is caught between her own fixation on Saleem while being followed around by Shurlee who claims that he cannot live without her. Her constantly changing moods generate non-stop laughs. One moment she is irritated by Shurlee and is trying to get rid of him with a barrage of choice Punjabi words on her knife-sharp tongue and a moment later she becomes all honey and butter when she talks to Saleem.   

In real life, Sujata is a well-known and highly respected South Asian community leader in the Washington Metropolitan Area where she has been active in the community affairs and various cultural activities for more than two decades. 

Charity work is one of Sujata’s passions.  She has worked with numerous charity groups.  She is on the board of Karuna Charities of Washington D.C. Karuna Charities helps women and children of South Asian origin.  She is an active member of Washington D.C. chapter of Manav Kalyan Kendra, a charity organization that raises funds in the US to buy medicines and textbooks for children living in Delhi’s slums. She is also a member of USINPAC, a US/India political action committee. 

Sujata is an accomplished Classical and Kathak dancer and has done numerous dance performances.  She has also performed in a number of stage plays.  More recently, she did no less than 4 different roles in Global Performing Arts’ successful and critically acclaimed Punjabi Play Heer Ranjha in 2001. 

In her professional career, Sujata is one of the leading real estate professionals in the area and now manages her own real estate brokerage firm.