Gouri Bhuyan is an Indian-born theater-maker, writer and actor, and still warming up to the notion of calling herself a performance artist. She is habitually gender-conforming, much to her chagrin, but authorially genre-nonconforming with absolute panache. As a visually-impaired artist, most of her performative work centers the disabled experience, making the discourse as inescapable as the reality of inhabiting a non-normative, female body. She places the disabled experience in dialogue with the multiplicity of her identities having grown up in postcolonial India, in an effort to unravel notions of privilege, power, access and the politics of identity. At any given moment, she considers herself to be a chronically hilarious individual, making comedy, satire, irony and the ensuing discomfort, her primary medium of expression.

Her writing won first place at the ICPA awards 2025 for Outstanding Reporting. In the recent past, her one-woman play Cursed like Cupid won the award for Outstanding New Writing at India’s youth theater festival, Thespo 2022. Prior to pursuing an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she holds an MA in Psychology from the University of Mumbai.