MADHURI SHEKAR

Madhuri is a recipient of the Lanford Wilson Playwriting Award and the Steinberg Playwriting Award. Her nationally produced plays include House of Joy, Queen, A Nice Indian Boy, and In Love and Warcraft. Her audio drama, Evil Eye, won a 2020 Audie Award for best original work, and she wrote the film adaptation for Amazon Prime, which stars Sarita Chaudhury. In other TV and film work, Madhuri was a staff writer on HBO’s “The Nevers,” worked on Sister Act 3, and wrote on “3 Body Problem,” a new Netflix show from the creators of “Game of Thrones.” She is working on commissions for the Perelman Performing Arts Center, Audible Theater, and Playwrights Horizons, as well as pilots for HBO, Disney+, and Netflix. Madhuri is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and an alumni of the Ma-Yi writers lab and the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Julliard. She has an MFA in dramatic writing from USC.