Shami Chakrabarti Shami Chakrabarti Sharmishta Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, (born 16 June 1969), commonly known as Shami Chakrabarti, is a British Labour Party politician and member of the House of Lords. She is a barrister, and was the director of Liberty, an advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights, from 2003 to 2016. Chakrabarti was born in the London Borough of Harrow, and studied Law at the London School of Economics. After graduating, she was called to the Bar and then worked as an in-house legal counsel for the Home Office. When she was the director of Liberty, she campaigned against
Peter Hall (director) with Center Theater Group, Los Angeles (1999 and 2001) and John Barton's nine-hour epic "Tantalus" (2000), an RSC co-production with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. In 2003, Hall became the founding director of The Rose Theatre a new venue to be constructed in Kingston upon Thames whose design was inspired by the Elizabethan original. He directed a number of productions there including Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya", which opened the building in 2008, and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2010, with Judi Dench as Titania). Hall was also appointed "Director Emeritus" of The Rose Kingston. Peter Hall was also an internationally