Geetha Reddy

Geetha Reddy is a playwright and filmmaker working in the Bay Area. Her plays include The Employee Dharma Handbook (TheaterWorks Silicon Valley), Mahābhārata (Oakland Theatre Project) Far, Far Better Things (Shotgun Players/ TheatreFirst), Hela (with Lauren Gunderson, TheatreFirst), Safe House (SF Playhouse), and Blastosphere (with Aaron Loeb, CentralWorks). Geetha’s plays Me Given You, Girl in a Box, and On a Wonderverse were part of the Playwright’s Foundation’s ‘In the Rough’ reading series. Safe House and On a Wonderverse were featured in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She has been commissioned by TheatreWorks, SFPlayhouse, Oakland Theatre Project, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire, the Gerbode Foundation, and PlayGround (3). Her plays have also appeared in the San Francisco Fringe...

Geetha Reddy is a playwright and filmmaker working in the Bay Area. Her plays include The Employee Dharma Handbook (TheaterWorks Silicon Valley), Mahābhārata (Oakland Theatre Project) Far, Far Better Things (Shotgun Players/ TheatreFirst), Hela (with Lauren Gunderson, TheatreFirst), Safe House (SF Playhouse), and Blastosphere (with Aaron Loeb, CentralWorks). Geetha’s plays Me Given You, Girl in a Box, and On a Wonderverse were part of the Playwright’s Foundation’s ‘In the Rough’ reading series. Safe House and On a Wonderverse were featured in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She has been commissioned by TheatreWorks, SFPlayhouse, Oakland Theatre Project, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire, the Gerbode Foundation, and PlayGround (3). Her plays have also appeared in the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the Santa Rosa Quickies festival, the Best of PlayGround Festival, the Just Theatre Lab series, the Crowded Fire Matchbox series, and the Theatreworks New Works Festival. Her short film Obit appeared at LA Shorts, NY Indie Fest, Bend Film Festival, the GI Film Festival and many others. Geetha is an alumna Resident Playwright at the Playwright’s Foundation and the Susan Fairbanks Core Writer’s Group at TheatreWorks. Geetha is a member of the Dramatist Guild.

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Scripts

The Employee Dharma Handbook

by Geetha Reddy

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
romantic comedy

As an important rocket launch approaches, Val, an HR Executive at an aerospace company, suspects that Leela, a young engineer, was overlooked for a promotion. Leela, a first-generation American, doesn’t really want to talk about it, but Val suspects sexism is the cause. What they don’t expect to uncover are simmering tensions of ancient origins among the company’s Indian immigrant employees…sorry, Valued Team...

As an important rocket launch approaches, Val, an HR Executive at an aerospace company, suspects that Leela, a young engineer, was overlooked for a promotion. Leela, a first-generation American, doesn’t really want to talk about it, but Val suspects sexism is the cause. What they don’t expect to uncover are simmering tensions of ancient origins among the company’s Indian immigrant employees…sorry, Valued Team Members. Soon, Val is navigating a funhouse of identity, nepotism, and desire as she tries to understand the culture and biases of Leela’s managers. When push comes to shove, Val will need to decide what her duty is to Leela, to the company, and to herself.

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Mahābhārata

by Geetha Reddy

Cast Size
1—10
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
fable/folktale

A bold retelling of the ancient text, which excavates the epic for a new era. The play examines the nature of conflict, betrayal, and victory through a contemporary lens—but what will the Aunties say?

A bold retelling of the ancient text, which excavates the epic for a new era. The play examines the nature of conflict, betrayal, and victory through a contemporary lens—but what will the Aunties say?

Far, Far Better Things

by Geetha Reddy

2
Cast Size
4—5
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
political

Inspired by Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Geetha Reddy’s new play tells the story of two women—a Latina domestic worker and a young South Asian doctor—separated by class, race, and the unspoken rules of modern womanhood. See what happens when these two women strive to balance their responsibilities to their children, to themselves, and to each other.

Inspired by Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Geetha Reddy’s new play tells the story of two women—a Latina domestic worker and a young South Asian doctor—separated by class, race, and the unspoken rules of modern womanhood. See what happens when these two women strive to balance their responsibilities to their children, to themselves, and to each other.

Safe House

by Geetha Reddy

Cast Size
4
Genre
adventure,
dark comedy,
drama

Enter the isolation chamber of a stay-at-home mother raising a pair of profoundly different twins, June and July. As her world becomes smaller, she goes to extreme measures to survive the threats of the modern world.

Enter the isolation chamber of a stay-at-home mother raising a pair of profoundly different twins, June and July. As her world becomes smaller, she goes to extreme measures to survive the threats of the modern world.