Annaporva is an Indian-born, Florida-raised, New York–based theater artist. Her work engages memory and archival research to explore how the past and imagined futures shape our present moment. Rooted in live performance, her practice examines archives not only as repositories of history, but as theatrical sites—defined as much by absence, silence, and erasure as by what is preserved.

Her artistic inquiry begins with missing pieces. Born in India to a nomadic tribe that communicates through an oral language, Annaporva grew up with little formal documentation of her own history. These gaps inform both the content and form of her work, prompting questions central to her practice: how can theater revisit untold or obscured histories? How can performance hold what is undocumented, forgotten, or intentionally erased—and recenter those voices with care?

Working as a writer, director, designer, and developer of new work, Annaporva creates performances that prioritize intimacy, consent, and trauma-informed process. She is interested in theater as a space where discomfort can be generative, authenticity can emerge, and collective imagination can creatively engage the gaps history leaves behind.

She has directed Kenneth Keng’s AMA (Target Margin Theater), Brought Up (University Settlement), and Wake Up (Sarah Lawrence College). Annaporva served as an Associate Director on Terror Is the Order of the Day by Ben Heineman Jr. (The Flea Theater) and directed Zee Hanna’s Sunshower (The Tank). She was the Associate Director for SOUR MILK’S DIRT at the 2026 remount at The Tank.  Recently she performed in Arshia Iqbal’s If I Stayed (Hudson Guild Theater) and Isabella Basile’s  Everything I Do, I Do for Taylor Swift (The Rat). Annaporva has puppeteered for Processional Arts Workshop, Little Amal Walks New York, and Basil Twist.

She is a company tour manager for Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group. Annaporva is an assistant teacher of Intimacy In Performance at NYU Tisch and Stage Combat at the Atlantic Theater School.