SAN DIEGO (March 27, 2025) – The Old Globe is pleased to announce the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of House of India by San Diego playwright Deepak Kumar (2023 MacDowell Fellow, Prospect Musical’s Baked! The Musical). Drama Desk Award-nominee Zi Alikhan (Primary Stages’ On That Day in Amsterdam, Pasadena Playhouse’s Sanctuary City) directs this heartwarming comedy featuring a vibrant cast of characters who work to build a restaurant, a legacy, and a new kind of American Dream.
Performances begin May 10 and run through June 1, 2025, with the opening on Thursday, May 15 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park. Tickets go on sale on Friday, March 28 at 12 p.m. PT and are available at TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623), and in person at The Old Globe’s Box Office in Balboa Park (1363 Old Globe Way).
Ananya runs House of India, a once-successful restaurant in a strip mall outside of Cleveland. Her cook Jacob has an idea to bring in more customers: ditch the traditional dishes and embrace a trendy, fusion-forward menu (think “Indian Chipotle”). Her two grown children have their own views too. As the bills and worries pile up, Ananya must choose: hold on to her late husband’s vision, or compromise in the name of progress.
“The Old Globe’s 2025 lineup continues with a world premiere play that’s moving and meaningful,” said Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. “House of India asks fascinating and deep questions about identity and Americanness as it reminds us that immigrant communities are the engines that forge our national culture. Deepak Kumar cannily uses food and cuisine as a way to consider authenticity, assimilation, and change, and he simultaneously makes an American family play that’s truly touching and very funny. This is a special work, and director Zi Alikhan partners with Kumar to make a production of unusual richness in our intimate Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre. They’ve gathered a phenomenal cast of major stage talents and together these artists will make a memorable evening of theatre in San Diego.”
The cast of House of India includes Supriya Ganesh as Vaidehi (Dr. Samira Mohan in MAX’s The Pitt, Freeform’s Grown-ish), Mahira Kakkar as Ananya (The Old Globe’s Henry 6, Broadway’s Life of Pi), Deven Kolluri as Vikram (Off Broadway’s Monsoon Wedding, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?), and Tommy Bo as Jacob (Classic Stage Company’s Snow in Midsummer, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s The Far Country).
House of India understudies include Parth Kichloo, Giancarlo Lugo, and Sutheshna Mani.
Also joining Kumar and Alikhan as part of the creative team are Chika Shimizu (Scenic Design); Rodrigo Munoz (Costume Design); Cha See (Lighting Design); Fan Zhang (Sound Design); tbd casting co., Stephanie Yankwitt & Margaret Dunn, CSA(Casting); and Evelyn G. Myers (Production Stage Manager).
Ticket prices for House of India start at $31. Performances for the four-week limited engagement run May 10 – June 1, 2025, with the official press opening at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 15. Visit TheOldGlobe.org for tickets, a full schedule, and additional information.
Opening Night post-show receptions for the cast and donors are held in Hattox Hall, located in the Karen and Donald Cohn Education Center.
House of India is supported by Lead Production Sponsor The Henry Donald Wolpert and Barbara Wolpert Family Trust with additional support provided by The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation.
Additional financial support for The Old Globe is provided by The City of San Diego. The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund provides leadership support for The Old Globe’s year-round activities.
The Tony Award–winning The Old Globe is one of the country’s leading professional nonprofit regional theatres. Now in its 90th year, the Globe is San Diego’s flagship performing arts institution, and it serves a vibrant community by creating theatre that lives beyond the stage. Under the leadership of Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director Timothy J. Shields, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 16 productions of classic, contemporary, and new works on its three Balboa Park stages. The company’s Summer Shakespeare Festival is internationally renowned, and in 2024 the Globe completed the Shakespeare canon with Edelstein’s landmark production Henry 6, which received the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle’s 2024 Craig Noel Award for “Outstanding New Play.” More than 250,000 people annually attend Globe productions and participate in the theatre’s artistic and arts engagement programs. Its nationally prominent Arts Engagement Department provides an array of participatory programs that make theatre matter to more people in neighborhoods throughout the region. Humanities programs at the Globe and around the city broaden the community’s understanding of theatre art in all its forms. The Globe also boasts a range of new play development programs with professional and community-based writers, as well as the renowned The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Numerous world premieres—such as 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Bright Star, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!—have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to highly successful runs on Broadway and at regional theatres across the country.
