About Shebana Coelho
Shebana Coelho is an award-winning playwright, director, and creative facilitator originally from India and now based in New Mexico, USA. She creates transformational plays, immersive experiences, and creative workshops that reconnect people to their authentic voice, inner senses, and the natural world...
…With a background spanning theater, film, and storytelling, Shebana’s work bridges cultures, languages, and landscapes. Her signature approach combines poetic intuition with deep listening, helping individuals discover how one powerful expression—a single act of creativity—can spark lasting personal transformation.
“What I have seen is that one catalyst expression can have an incredible ripple effect—liberating your voice into the world, transforming into seeds of powerful art, books, conversations, coaching, and connection—so you are truly seen.”
Shebana is the writer of “the good manners of colonized subjects”, a critically acclaimed play exploring ancestral memory, migration, and myth. One of its signature lines captures her unique poetic voice:
“subsé pehlé, en la oscuridad, the animal left the sea, found the shore, loved the cave, and became song, tree, stone dance.”
Her work draws on diverse influences—indigenous storytelling, South Asian heritage, spiritual ecology, and a commitment to voice as liberation. Through residencies, workshops, and performances, she invites others into a creative process that awakens the soul and deepens presence.
