Sulabha Deshpande was born in 1937 in Bombay. She studied at Siddhartha College and received a degree in education and worked as a teacher in Chhabildas High School. Soon she threw herself wholeheartedly into theatre. She was involved with children`s theatre for a long time. She also directed and staged several children`s plays, including the famous Sangitnatak, Durga jhali Gauri i.e. `Durga Became Gauri` in 1982. She organized training camps for children, and toured Norway, Japan, the USSR and USA to study children`s theatre. In 1960 she helped establish the trailblazing group Rangayan. After it disintegrated, she, her husband Arvind Deshpande, and Arun Kakade founded Awishkar. That was an experimental group. Housed in Chhabildas Hall, which they also let out to like-minded groups, it gave rise to the so-called `Chhabildas movement`. Her lead acting in Vijay Tendulkar`s plays, creating the role of the persecuted schoolteacher Benare in Shantata! Court chalu ahe i.e. `Silence! The Courtis in Session` in 1967, captured on film by Satyadev Dubey in 1971, and as the exploited Champa in Sakharam Binder i.e. a revival that she directed, won great critical acclaim. She did several other plays in Hindi and Marathi, such as Badal Sircar`s Evam Indrajit and many more.
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