Dhaya In The Press

“Dhaya Lakshminarayanan…[a] San Francisco comedian, has a whole bit about how masking makes being a woman in the public domain easier. (Her favorite mask is covered in flowers and the repeated phrase “6 feet motherf—r.”) ‘I’ve encountered multiple times where I’m deep in my thoughts and somebody will interrupt it to tell me to smile,’ she says. ‘There’s something about wearing a mask that really cut down on that hollering and catcalling.’ ” - SF Chronicle

“Dhaya has embraced the hard-to-pin-down nature of her art. At one minute, she’s delivering a lively story on NPR’S Snap Judgment accompanied by restless avant jazz, and the next minute she’s writing in the San Francisco Chronicle about the importance of the library to her early childhood. Such is the life of an artist whose refusal to pigeonhole herself into one neat box has only increased her visibility. The indefinability of her craft widened the scope of her work, creating additive opportunities down frequently intersecting paths…One might feel welcomed by her craft, as if taking a seat next to Dhaya on her living room couch over a steaming mug of tea.” - Seismic Sisters

“…San Francisco comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan said even though $1,000 doesn’t go a long way in San Francisco, every little bit helps for artists like her who lost their entire livelihoods when performance spaces shut down last spring. ‘It seems like it’s really done in a respectful way to give artists this small boost,’ Lakshminarayanan said. ” - KQED

“ ‘It’s destabilizing,’ she says of the impact of a well-timed joke. ‘Humor can defuse inappropriate behavior, she’s found, leaving folks laughing and disarmed.’ ” - Wall Street Journal

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