Hia Ghosh is an actor, dancer and director, currently living and working in Western Massachusetts.

Hia is passionate about cultivating visibility for the South Asian diaspora while engaging local communities in nuanced conversations around immigrant experiences in today’s America. Since moving to the United States for graduate school in 2016, they are grateful and fortunate to have found community and a theatre family in the valley. Recent credits include Night Train (Theater Between Addresses), The Employee Dharma Handbook, The Broken Machine (Silverthorne Theatre), To Serve The Hive (Theater Between Addresses), Far, Far Better Things (WAM Theatre) as well as numerous UMass Amherst Mainstage productions. They have also collaborated with Bread and Puppet Theatre, Northampton Playwrights Lab, and the Play Incubation Collective.

Dr. Hia Ghosh is also a Computer Science Lecturer at Smith College. Their research is in equitable Computer Science Education. They are constantly amazed at how their two worlds aren’t as dissonant as they seem.