hi! i'm arya vishin (he/him). this is my personal website. i'm a writer, theatermaker, and student from the SF bay area. i am currently finishing my bachelors degree at uc berkeley.

some of my interests include: theater & performance studies, [south asian] epic traditions, kashmir & kashmiri, shakespeare, poetry & poetics, bhakti, adaptation/appropriation, hindi cinema, the intersections of classic literature & popular culture, and more.

i also like 2000s pop girl music, skating, and bad tv.

email: avishin [@] berkeley.edu

education

BA in english & south asian studies | university of california, berkeley (2025)
minors in theater & performance studies and creative writing

writing

2024:
Pamposh (fiction) | Bright Flash Literary Review
babylon and other modern bhakti poems | miniskirt magazine
ARJUNI (art/poetry) | kingfisher magazine
WHEN MY FATHER TELLS ME TO TAKE MY EARRING OUT | frontier poetry

2023:
LAST WINTER YOU LEAVE ME UNPLANTED | ALOCASIA (featured by verse daily)
who we are (art/poetry) | hot pot magazine
3 shakespeare poems) | paper teeth press
DANDAKA HYPOCENTER MUSEUM | body fluids lit
ARJUNA // MITRA (hybrid/poetry) | cutbow quarterly
NIGHT DRIVE WITH BRITNEY SPEARS (fiction) | dollar store mag
KAMAL // RAIVATAKA | the minison zine
BEFORE YOU WRITE ABOUT GENERATIONAL TRAUMA FOR YOUR WHITE PROFESSOR, CONSIDER: (prose poetry) | the lumiere review
MY INDIAN DOG AND OTHER FOLKTALES | chinchilla lit
KAMAL (art/poetry) | beaver magazine
2 poems | en*gendered
Kashmiri Bedtime Story | lumina journal
BESIDE | COOP

& prior:
After California | national scholastic art & writing awards
Lessons From Hebrew Class | the poetry society - foyle young poets

theater

some photos from shows/pieces i've worked on are available here.

★ shows/productions
lysistrata | undergraduate/assistant dramaturg | uc berkeley tdps, spring '24
macbeth | co-dramaturg | barestage productions, spring '24
mamma mia! | pepper (24 hour musical) | barestage productions, fall '24
a midsummer night's dream | co-director (24 hour play) | barestage productions, fall '24
17 reasons (why) | assistant director, dramaturg, projections | uc berkeley tdps | fall '24
everybody | assistant director | uc berkeley tdps | fall '24
mircalla | dramaturg | barestage productions | fall '24
cyrano de bergerac | director | barestage productions | spring '24
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead | ASM | barestage productions, spring '23
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time | roger/ensemble | barestage productions, fall '22
titus andronicus | quintus/nurse | barestage productions, spring '22

★ barepage | barestage productions, spring '23 - spring '25
theater ensemble producing student-written, directed, and acted work
rehearsal manager | fall '23 - spring '25
writer | confessions from a developmental staging of toxic: a great gatsby britney spears jukebox musical, Classified Case File Taken from the Personal Documents of Detective Julian Price, ZOC, Lines Crossed Out a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, pashupatastra, Bad Romance, The Butler Did It
director | Classified Case File Taken from the Personal Documents of Detective Julian Price, pashupatastra, A Tale of Three Villains, The Butler Did It
actor | various pieces