Madhuri Shekar

Welcome to the 28th episode of A QISSAA with Ishika! My guest today is playwright and screenwriter Madhuri Shekar! She is the 2020 winner of the Lanford Wilson playwriting award, an alumnus of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard, and a fellow at New Dramatists. Madhuri holds a masters in dramatic writing from USC, as well as degrees from London School of Economics and Stella Maris College. Her Audible audio play EVIL EYE won a 2020 Audie Award for best original work, and she later adapted that play into a feature film for Amazon Prime and Blumhouse Productions. Her numerous plays have been produced or developed at the Alliance Theatre, Victory Gardens, California Shakespeare Theater, the Center Theatre Group, East West Players, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center, Hedgebrook Playwrights' Festival, and the Old Globe, among others. She co-created the web mini-series 'Titus and Dronicus', wrote for the TV show THE NEVERS on HBOMax, and is a writer on the upcoming Netflix sci-fi epic THREE BODY PROBLEM.

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Madhuri Shekar is an episode from A QISSAA with Ishika by Ishika Muchhal.

This episode is 00:49:19 long.

This episode was published on Feb 26, 2024.

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