Simply Cindy
A six-year-old battles paratas vs. PB&Js, saris vs sweaters, and brown eyes vs blue.
Performances
Chicago’s Teatro Vista (October 2013)
Chicago Dramatists (February 2014)
New Bedford’s Culture Park Theatre (November 2014)
REALITY CHECK
At the (padded) corner of meet cute and mayhem. When a young professional is misdiagnosed as suicidal, she is forced to seek comfort and channel her rage at an unassuming paramedic.
Performances
Ithaca’s Little Black Dress Production (May 2014)
LA Fringe Festival finalist (June 2014)
Seattle’s LG Theater (June 2015) Los Angeles’ The Car Plays (January 2018) New York’s Scribe Stages (September 2020)
Slut
Post-abortion, an Indian American woman writhes in the pain on the family couch, flanked by her oblivious immigrant parents as they practice their English to Wheel-of-Fortune.
Performances
Chicago Dramatists (February 2015)
Minneapolis’ Upbound Theater (March 2015)
Alaska’s Play Lab of Last Frontier Theater Conference (June 2015)
Chicago's Landmark Theater - finalist (June 2015)
New Mexico's Fusion Theater - finalist (June 2015) CT’s Ivoryton Playhouse – finalist (November 2016) Broads' Word Ensemble - LA reading (October 2017) Clutch Productions' EmpowHER series - NYC reading (December 2017) Ensemble Studio Theatre - reading (February 2020) Marblehead Theater - production (April 2020)
Dharma
First-generation Indian American siblings ask their immigrant senior parents to get a divorce so they can house them in their sunset years, thereby performing their cosmic duty without reliving their parents' dysfunctional marriage.
Performances
Northwestern University (February 2015)
Fresh Produce'd LA (November 2015) Actor's Theater of Charlotte - nuVoices Festival - finalist (November 2015) LA’s Fresh Produce Theater – Staged Reading (November 2015)
Play Penn Conference – Finalist (March 2016) The Colonial Players –Finalist from 212 submissions (April 2017)
O’Neill Conference – semi-finalist (February 2017)
NYC’s Joust Theatre – Finalist (January 2017) Athena Reads Series - Selected (July 2019) NYC-based Iati Theater’s fellowship - Performed (June 2021) Connecticut-based The Depot - New Play Readings (October 2021). Kumu Kahua/University of Hawaii - Pacific Rim Prize (2022) StudioTenn - New Play Reading Series (February 2023) Great Plains Theatre Conference - fellow (May 2023) Signature Theatre - New Voices Reading Series (June 2023)
CATCALL
What happens when you strive for more...do you become the best version of yourself or the least content version of anyone? At the intersection of girl and woman, young and old and possible and past, our protagonist Nina Rao confronts this conundrum...with life-changing results.
PERFORMANCES
LA’s Bootleg Theatre - Moving Arts' MadLab Playwright fellowship (October 2017) NYC’s Shogun Theatre - Play Reading Series (October 2018) NYC’s Fresh Lime Productions - Reading (October 2020)