I am an NYC-based writer, director, producer, and performer. My work focuses on themes of hope, transformation, and community, and I believe in using theater to facilitate collective healing, social resistance, and self-empowerment.
In January 2020, I co-founded Fresh Lime Soda Productions, a South Asian theater ensemble and incubator, with my creative partner Sabina Sethi Unni. FLSP actively seeks to dismantle traditional barriers to access in theater, focused on producing virtual and in-person politically-motivated new plays and talkbacks, connecting early-career artists with one another, and fostering a social community for South Asian artists and theater-lovers around the world.
I am a recent MFA Playwriting graduate of Columbia University School of the Arts. Prior to Columbia, I worked as a legal assistant at a major law firm in Washington, D.C., where I observed non-theatrical but similarly engaging, persuasive, and ensemble-based storytelling. I'm also a proud alum of Wellesley College, where I studied English & Political Science. My senior thesis, a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories entitled Jet Lag, advised by Octavio Gonzalez, won the Charlotte Paul Reese '38 Memorial Prize for Creativity in a Collection of Short Fiction.
I was born in New York, and spent my teenage years in Mumbai, India.
Some of my favorite things include: cold showers, ripe plums, animals, old maps, trains and planes, expressive socks, customized playlists, citrus juice (especially fresh lime soda), black raspberry ice cream, neon eyeliner, loose button-downs, breakfast sandwiches, and strangers' laughs.
If you'd like to get to know my work better or collaborate on a project, feel free to reach out.
My resumes (Playwriting, Directing, Acting, Administrative) are available upon request.
In January 2020, I co-founded Fresh Lime Soda Productions, a South Asian theater ensemble and incubator, with my creative partner Sabina Sethi Unni. FLSP actively seeks to dismantle traditional barriers to access in theater, focused on producing virtual and in-person politically-motivated new plays and talkbacks, connecting early-career artists with one another, and fostering a social community for South Asian artists and theater-lovers around the world.
I am a recent MFA Playwriting graduate of Columbia University School of the Arts. Prior to Columbia, I worked as a legal assistant at a major law firm in Washington, D.C., where I observed non-theatrical but similarly engaging, persuasive, and ensemble-based storytelling. I'm also a proud alum of Wellesley College, where I studied English & Political Science. My senior thesis, a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories entitled Jet Lag, advised by Octavio Gonzalez, won the Charlotte Paul Reese '38 Memorial Prize for Creativity in a Collection of Short Fiction.
I was born in New York, and spent my teenage years in Mumbai, India.
Some of my favorite things include: cold showers, ripe plums, animals, old maps, trains and planes, expressive socks, customized playlists, citrus juice (especially fresh lime soda), black raspberry ice cream, neon eyeliner, loose button-downs, breakfast sandwiches, and strangers' laughs.
If you'd like to get to know my work better or collaborate on a project, feel free to reach out.
My resumes (Playwriting, Directing, Acting, Administrative) are available upon request.
