In partnership with The Black List, the New Normal Series will feature "Like Bandana With A V", my half-hour comedic pilot, at their March 27th event (8 p.m., The Next Door Lounge, Los Angeles)! Please join us! Tickets can be purchased online!
Play-Makers Theater Company Awards DHARMA Semi-Finalist Status
Dharma is a semi-finalist with Play-Makers Theater in Spokane, WA. Ten semifinalists were selected from this year's submissions pool as part of their annual "Women Are Funny" initiative.
Recipient of 2018 ATHE New Play Development Workshop opportunity!
My play has been selected from 130 submissions to be workshopped, developed, and presented at the 2018 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference to be held in Boston, MA August 1-5. Founded in 1986, ATHE serves the interests of its diverse individual and organizational members, including college and university theatre departments and administrators, educators, graduate students, and theatre practitioners. An advocate for the field of theatre and performance in higher education, ATHE serves as an intellectual and artistic center for producing new knowledge about theatre and performance-related disciplines, cultivating vital alliances with other scholarly and creative disciplines, linking with professional and community-based theatres, and promoting access and equity.
4950 featured in the line up for the 2018 California Women's Festival!
My film, which I wrote and co-produced, was accepted into the California Women's Festival!
"Like Bandana with A V" advances with the Fox Writers Lab!
I have advanced in the process of consideration of the Fox Writers Lab (FWL) for their 2018 program. The program receives up to 750 applications and ultimately eight writers will be selected. Participants are connected with showrunners, screenwriters, directors and creative executives across television, feature films and digital entertainment. The FWL offers trained writers an immersive four-month curriculum focused on developing original material, honing writing skills and exploring the business of media and entertainment.
My Work to be Featured in The Car Plays at Segerstrom Center for the Arts
I was invited to submit a 10-minute play which was ultimately selected for THE CAR PLAYS, an immersive theatrical experience. Blurring the lines between theatre and real life, this unique, site-specific theatrical sensation returns to Segerstrom Center. 5 cars, 5 different 10-minute plays, and you’re right in the middle of each one. Conceived by Paul Stein and produced by Moving Arts, The Car Plays is "adventurous theatre packed into a Jeep or a Jetta or an Audi" (Huffington Post). Please join us and hop in for the ride of your life! There are 22 performances in January 2018 and tickets can be purchased at: https://www.scfta.org/events
"Slut" Featured in NYC READING SERIES
The 2017 empowHER Reading Series of Clutch Productions is dedicated to exploring hidden gender bias and features:
Slut
by Nayna Agrawal
directed by Vanessa Morosco
Webster's Bitch
by Jacqueline Bircher
directed by Vanessa Morosco
Invisible
by Jane Jeffries
directed by Julia Sears
my favorite flower
by Arika Larson
directed by Raquel Almazan
The Takeover
by Barbara Lindsay
directed by Christianne Greiert
Ensemble Cast
Raji Ahsan*, Jeanette Bonner*, Rajesh Bose*, Christianne Greiert*, Rebecca Hirota*, Esther Mira, Pooya Mohesni*, Pilar Rehert*, Jennifer Dorr White*, Miranda Noelle Wilson*, and Clint Zugel*
*Actors appear courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
WHEN
Sunday, December 17th
2:30pm
WHERE
Primary Stages Studios
307 West 38th Street, Suite 1510
Seating is limited and by invitation only. Please email to RSVP!
Clutch Productions, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to creating opportunities for emerging female artists in theatre and film.
DHARMA a finalist for the Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence
DHARMA is one of seven finalists selected from several hundred submissions for the Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence! Now in its tenth year, the program supports emerging playwrights and identifies one writer annually. Each residency is unique and writers work with the Artistic Director to build a year of activities that will be beneficial to them and their process. For one year the resident writer has the opportunity to make use of the studio's resources to advance their craft, spend time on works-in-progress or develop new work.
FIRST LOOK SERIES - CATCALL
Moving Arts presents a weekend event showcasing the work produced from MADlab, a unique 9-month program that focuses on the development of new plays from the idea up. Join us for staged readings, then stay for post-reading gatherings with food and drink.
Sunday, Oct 8th @ 11 am: CATCALL by Nayna Agrawal
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, Nina Rao confronts this conundrum...with disastrous results.
Bootleg Theatre: 2220 Beverly Blvd, 90057
Tickets are FREE, reserve your seat HERE
Playground LA awards me a spot in their 2017-2018 Writers Pool
Playground LA has announced its 2017-18 Writers Pool! As a selected playwright, I will participate in their Monday Night series. Season 6 kicks off on October 9 (for the complete schedule, visit http://playground-la.org/monday). Each month, PlayGround-LA will announce a topic and the Writers Pool will have four-and-a-half days to respond with their original short plays. The top six scripts will be selected, matched with leading local directors and actors, rehearsed for an hour-and-a-half each, and then presented as script-in-hand staged readings as part of the monthly Monday Night PlayGround series.