Sunita Mukhi

Sunita Mukhi aka Suni M is a theater/film/performance artist, writer, cultural programs curator, and interdisciplinary scholartist. She writes and performs her poetry, stories, monologues that espouse the redemptive power of the arts with dynamic women as central characters. Of Indian origin but born & bred in the Philippines, and thriving in the USA for 30 years, she continues her curatorial work, arts advocacy and practice as the Artistic Director of DeviDiva Productions and as Suni M., a freelance actor. Her most recent credits as a principal character include the short films Convenience (2016) Morning with Marty (2018) for which she got Gold for Performance as the female lead at the Filipino Arts and Cinema Festival, 2022; Life Ongoing (2022), an official entry at the Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles; and the forthcoming Ride or Die, Stitched, and How Do You Like Your Eggs? She also appears in the music videos We Sinful Women (2021), and Ik Tera Pyar (2022). She wrote, directed and performed Dance Stories of Magnificence and Joy in Hawaii, and wrote and performed My Eyes Adore You in Verona - both in 2018. In 2015, she mounted a six hour performance based on Dante's Purgatory entitled Love Gone Wrong, Love Redeemed, and directed and co-wrote the immersive dance theatrical Quartered in 2017. She played Death/Devil in The Luminous Mysteries (2016), has appeared as Baroness Olga in Schlitzie: Alive and Inside the Decaying Sideshow (2022) and in the dual roles of Basma/Kalama in Accidental Feminist (2022). She is also performed the dual roles of Lori and Trudy in the play Patches mounted at the Hudson Theater Guild (2022). She is an associate artist with Rogue Artists Theater Group in Los Angeles. @sunimartist