Zuleikha Chaudhari is a theatre director and lighting designer based in Delhi. Her ongoing research considers the structures and codes of performance as well the function and processes of the actor as reality and truth production. 2015 onwards she has been exploring the framework of law as performance, the role of performance in law and the performativity of legal truth-production. She is the director of the Alkazi Theatre Archives at The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts (New Delhi) and currently a scholar at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.