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Nandita Shenoy

NANDITA SHENOY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Paradigm  represented by Doug Kesten

Nandita Shenoy is an actor-writer who lives in New York City. When not creating theater or supporting her fellow theater artists, Nandita enjoys cooking with bacon, eating chocolate, and writing about shirtless men. As an actor, Nandita was most recently seen in the World Premier of Trouble Cometh by Richard Dresser at the San Francisco Playhouse. Favorite credits include "Laxmi" in the World Premier of Some Other Kind of Person by Eric Pfeffinger at Philadelphia's InterAct Theater, "Amita" in Sloppy Second Chances by Mrinalini Kamath at EST, and "Seema" in The Last Surviving Heir by Sarovar Banka at Desipina's 7-11 Theater. She was a member of the Repertory Company of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for a season where she played the roles of "Ursula" in Much Ado About Nothing, "Miss Poppenghul" in Moonlight and Magnolias, and "Lucius" in Julius Caesar. She can also be seen in national commercials for IBM and GoDaddy. Nandita's latest full-length play, Washer/Dryer, is currently in rehearsals for its Off-Broadway premier at Theatre Row, produced by Ma-Yi Theater. Previews begin on January 26th. Opening Night is February 2nd, and the show closes on February 21st. Washer/Dryer received its World Premier at EastWest Players in February 2015 as a part of their 50th Anniversary Season. Washer/Dryer was also seen in Chicago as part of Rasaka Theatre's residency at Victory Gardens in October 2015. Another full length play Lyme Park: An Austonian Romance of an Indian Nature was produced by the Hegira at the Round House Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her one-actsMarrying Nandini, By Popular Demand, Rules of Engagement, and A More Perfect Date have received full productions in New York City from Green Light Productions, New Perspectives Theater, New Ground Collective, and Eating Theater respectively. She is also the recipient of the 2014 Father Hamblin One Act Commission Prize from theAbingdon Theater. Nandita's plays have been read at the Kennedy Center, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Second Generation, Salaam Theater, the Bleecker Street Theater, The Lark Play Development Center, and by the Red Harlem Readers. In addition to creating theater, Nandita is an advocate for diversity in the theater and sits on the Steering Committee of the Asian American Performers Action Coalition and is a member of the advisory board of the Bingham Camp Theater Retreat, a development space for musical theater. She has also been a participant of the South Asian Theater Arts Movement. Nandita holds a BA from Yale University in English literature with a distinction in the major. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers' Lab and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         By Popular Demand         Clandestine         Esspy         Everything Indian         Hindi         In the Middle         Lyme Park: An Austonian Romance of an Indian Nature         Making Face Time         Marrying Nandini         More Perfect Date, A         Rules of Engagement         Safe Haven         Washer/Dryer

By Popular Demand

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New Perspectives Theater, NYC    

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Clandestine

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This show is part of the Planet Connections theatre Festivity. This is their official description: A series of six short works about love, friendship, family, and the secrets that are all-too-often part and parcel of any relationship. Written by Glory Bowen, Ann Gillespie, Alex Goldberg, Duncan Pflaster, Nandita Shenoy, and Jonathan Wallace.
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Esspy

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An actor and a medical student cross paths repeatedly throughout the course of his medical training during the medical simulations that punctuate his education. The friendship that develops from their interactions reveals how much they have to learn from each other and questions whether compassion can be taught.

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Staged reading, Ma-Yi LabFest V     May 2012

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Everything Indian

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When Shree wins the Diversity for Broadway Fellowship, she thinks she has hit the jackpot, but the Great White Way might not be ready for something different.

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New Perspectives Theater     Aug 2009

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Hindi

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A Filipino-American woman's encounter with an Indian cab driver after returning from doing typhoon relief in the Philippines helps her understand her family language.

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Staged reading, Ma-Yi Writers Lab Benefit     Feb 2014

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In the Middle

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AEA Showcase, Leviathan Labs Migration Nation     Oct 2012

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Lyme Park: An Austonian Romance of an Indian Nature

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Inspired by Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, "Lyme Park" follows the adventures of Kavita and her friend Violet on a tour of the English countryside as Kavita tries to find her own Mr. Darcy. But where fantasy ends and reality begins is where Kavita finds herself grappling with questions of identity and how to know true love.

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Round House Silver Spring, 8641 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, Md     Jan 2011

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comedy Drama 90 min

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Making Face Time

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A couple finds that technology might be getting in the way of real communication.

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Marrying Nandini

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Two Indian parents fill out their daughter's Match.com profile with unexpected results. Finding a husband for their daughter is not as easy as others have made it out to seem, and they are forced to re-examine why it is so important for her to marry in the first place.
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part of Green Light Productions presents GLO, A new program of short plays written And directed by women

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Schapiro Theatre     Jul 2007

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More Perfect Date, A

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On a blind date, a woman discovers that perhaps there is a man who understands her psyche.

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Eating Theater, NYC     Sep 2012

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Rules of Engagement

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Nora is forced to bend her own rules when a younger co-worker asks her out.

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New Ground Collective, NYC     Jun 2010

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Safe Haven

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When a Catholic nun discovers a new resident's wife hiding in the basement of the hospital where she works, she is forced to find a way to resolve the demands of Church with the demands of her conscience.

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Winner of the 2014 Father Hamblin Playwriting Prize

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Father Hamblin Playwriting Award winner, Abingdon Theater     Aug 2014

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Washer/Dryer

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Sonya and Michaels recent elopement in Vegas seemed like a dream come true for both of them until they try living together in Sonyas Manhattan studio apartment. As they discover that they havent been entirely honest with each other or themselves, their secrets come home to roost along with an intrusive mother, the co-ops strict Board president, a harsh best friend, and a fabulous washer-dryer. Mayhem ensues as the couple is forced to re-evaluate their relationship and decide whether all really is fair in love and real estate.

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