ABOUT

Arushi Grover (she/her) is a dramaturg and scholar specializing in Shakespeare and adaptation. She is currently based in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and will be returning soon to Downingtown, Pennsylvania to pursue theatre opportunities in the greater Philadelphia area. 

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Most recently, Arushi completed her M.A. in Shakespeare and Creativity at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham (Stratford-upon-Avon, England), where she co-devised two ensemble-based creative collaborations between the Shakespeare Institute and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She served as dramaturg/co-editor for The Warm Hub (2024), a civic engagement event, and she served as dramaturg/sound designer for The World's Stage, performed at the RSC's The Other Place theater. She completed her master's dissertation explicating the speculative jukebox dramaturgy for proposed musical adaptation King Lear (Taylor's Version). 

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She has previously worked with the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT), People's Light (Malvern, PA), and the Colerain Center for Education Preservation and the Arts (Spruce Creek, PA). She has presented her work at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference, the British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad), and the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). She has held leadership positions with BritGrad, the Shakespeare Institute Players, Penn State's Statespeare, and Penn State's new-work collective Nouveau Theatre. She is currently working on a performance review for Shakespeare Bulletin.

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Arushi is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, with B.A. degrees in Theatre Studies, English, and Comparative Literature. Her undergraduate thesis was on adapting Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale post-COVID and was supported by Penn State's Erickson Discovery Grant for undergraduate research. With the Penn State School of Theatre, she created and directed workshop readings of two adaptations, Leontes and Paulina Are Very Much Not Dead (2023) and Leontes: A Winter's Tale (2022). With Penn State Centre Stage, she served as dramaturg for productions including Bernarda Alba (2024), Emilia (2023), Brigadoon (2022), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021). 

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UPDATED OCTOBER 2025