Desi Drama: the First National South Asian American Theatre Conference was organized and hosted by Silk Road Theatre Project with principal funding from the Ford Foundation and the American Institute for Pakistan Studies. The invitation-only meeting brought together 30 South Asian American playwrights, performers, directors, and administrators from California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Washington, D.C., and Germany.

The conference proceedings were held primarily in Silk Road’s theatre venue in Pierce Hall at The Historic Chicago Temple Building, with conversations focused on the challenges faced by theatre professionals of South Asian heritage, and strategies for building a South Asian American theatre arts movement.

Press:
"Silk Road hosts South Asian American Theatre Conference," by Jonathan Abarbanel. PerformInk, August 2007