Ayesha Siddiqui

In THE HUNTER, a deeply philosophical deer traps and confronts the man hunting them, seeking answers to questions of reciprocity.

"HUNTER: A deer is talking to me.
DEER: Yes, you sillyhead. Though a better question might be: Why am I in this trap? Who laid this trap? How can the sky be blue when it is in fact violet? Is it perception that makes things true?"

In DESERT FASHION DREAMERS, discarded piles of clothing in the Atacama Desert of Chile learn the value of hope for a new life.

"POLLY: It’s just so hot and it keeps getting hotter and there’s nothing to do but just sit here and bake to death and nothing ever happens."

At the Interplanetary Summit, the Sun, Venus, and Mars stage an intervention in an attempt to stop Earth's worrying and reckless behavior that is having a negative effect on the galaxy.

"EARTH: Look, you all have no idea how hard it is to be me, OK? You know what everyone calls me? Mother Earth. Like, mother? Can you see me as that? I can barely take care of myself. I never wanted to be a mother and suddenly I’m like, this planet with all these responsibilities. I never asked for this!"

In a future world, where we have forgotten how to cry, a woman is suddenly crying tears. A 10-minute play asking what truly makes us human.

"MYA: Look, do you need to scroll? Would that help you? That’s what you’re supposed to do when you’re feeling anything."

Nadia and her boyfriend Lionel are fighting. He wants to go to a party, she wants him to delete pictures off his phone. She hears a wild boar outside. He doesn't. She may or may not be turning into one too.

On Wall Street in 1987, Tariq, a young and ambitious Pakistani immigrant is clawing his way up the corporate banking ladder in hopes of becoming the youngest Vice President to date. But in the American world of 80s excess and with Black Monday looming, what will be the true cost to his relationships, values, and identity?

Beth and Jude, a seemingly happy couple, prepare for a wedding reception in their Connecticut hotel room. As Jude begins work on his best man speech, he runs into a childhood friend, Violet. She’s happy to see Jude, and as the night continues on, befriend Beth too. But Violet knows secrets about Jude’s past. And what she knows could destroy those around her. ROPE explores the wounds we carry, forgiveness and fault, and how a single event can bind us all together, even a decade later.

A woman returns home after a long absence to save her grandmother's dilapidated cabin that sits on protected marshland. Weaving the past and present worlds of the characters, a history of dreams, loss, and paralysis to the changing world around us is revealed. A play that explores how some of us can never leave places or events behind, too wounded by an environment that will never cease to change with or without us.

Semifinalist for Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, selected for the Sundance Institute Playwriting Workshop

A South Asian take on the classic father/child drama motif. Maria, the daughter of a Pakistani father and an American mother, lives in New York City with her boyfriend Dave. On the eve of Hurricane Sandy, her father (Baba) comes to visit from Pakistan for the first time in years. Trapped inside while the storm rages on, Maria, Dave, and Baba must all confront their differing views on culture, love, and belonging. In the end, they find that what they all want is perhaps not so different after all.

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