Shanta Gokhale is an accomplished translator and writer of novels, plays, short stories, film scripts and innumerable newspaper articles. She has translated essays, short fiction, novels and autobiographies and plays from Marathi into English, and a play and a novel each from English into Marathi. Gokhale has a volume on the history of Marathi theatre and has edited books on the works of theatre directors Satyadev Dubey, Veenapani Chawla, and has the oral history of experimental theatre in Mumbai to her credit.