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Nimisha Ladva

Foundry Member, Philadelphia Playwright, 2022 Conference Playwright

Nimisha Ladva (she/her) is a South Asian writer, storyteller, playwright and screenwriter. Her storytelling has been nationally broadcast on NPR: THEMOTH RADIO HOUR and PBS: STORIES FROM THE STAGE. She is currently a member of The Foundry, a three-year playwright development program sponsored by PlayPenn. An excerpt of her play GODDESS AT THE LUCKY LADY MOTEL was selected by The Bechdel Group in New York for the Sunday Shorts Program in March 2022. She is a 2022 finalist in the Red Bull Short Play Festival. In 2019, she was selected for the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive and was a finalist at SPACE at Ryder Farm in 2020. Her solo play, UNINVITED GIRLfirst staged in Philadelphia at the First Person Arts Festival in 2016, premiered in New York at the Women in Theater Festival in 2018. Her work has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Leeway Foundation. She teaches writing and public speaking at Haverford College.

History at PlayPenn

2024

Spitting Image: A Brown Girl’s Story About Her Black Friend

Adjunct Professor Nalini is a finalist for her dream teaching job when she is called in by the Provost and learns that a student has filed a complaint against her for teaching a classic text of the Harlem Renaissance that features a violent lynching.

2022

Goddess at the Lucky Lady Motel

After a death in the family, Mummy-ji, a first generation South Asian immigrant, and her son, Ravi, clash over almost everything.

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