A graduate of the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University and the MFA program in playwriting at the New School for Drama, Mrinalini Kamath recently received a grant from the Queens Council on the Arts to develop her play Term Limits. She was twice a Ma-Yi Writers Lab/University of Washington Mellon Creative Initiative Fellow at the School of Drama in Seattle, where she developed her play Let There Be Love, most recently produced in 2023 by the Scene Stealers Theatre Company in New Delhi, India, under the direction of Vivek Mansukhani. Mrinalini was also featured at Stage Left Theatre in Chicago as the Downstage Left resident playwright and a LeapFEST workshop participant with The New Deal, her play about a partnership formed by prison corporations and big pharma, which received an honorable mention on the 2016 Kilroys List. She was twice a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theater Conference with her plays BOOM and The Nava Jeevan, which was also a semi-finalist for The Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship. Her play Celestial Motions, about Indian astrology and modern arranged marriage, was the inaugural winner of East/West Players “Got Laughs?” comedy play competition and was translated into Marathi and performed in India. Her short plays and monologues have been published in several Smith and Kraus anthologies as well as playscripts.com. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the Queens-based Mission to (Dit)mars Propulsion Lab, The PlayGround Experiment, and an alumna of Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theatre‘s emerging playwrights lab.