India Kotis is a playwright and anthropologist, chiefly interested in why and how the meanings of things change. She is currently a member of the BMI-Lehman Engel Libbretist's workshop, where she is developing a Roller Derby Musical with composer Sabrina Halavi; the Women Playwrights Circle @ Speranza Theatre, The Road Theatre's Under Construction 2021 cohort and is under commission with The Truth, of Radiotopia.

Plays include PHILIA (James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting, Young Playwrights, Inc. National Competition); THE TANGIBLES (Playscripts); HERE BE MONSTERS (G45 Productions); PHONEBANK KISMET (The Truth) and THE SECRET LIFE OF BICYCLES (The Blank), among others. Her work has been developed, produced, and recognized by The UCross Foundation, The Blank Theatre, The Tank, The Road Theatre, The Secret City at Dixon Place, The 24 Hour Plays Nationals, Young Playwrights Inc., Manhattan Repertory Theatre, G45 Productions, Rascal Arts, The Scholastic Awards, The Drama Bookshop, The Alliance for Jewish Theatre, and Downtown Art.

She has performed with Dzieci Theatre Company, and can be seen in Marjorie Prime (2017), Cymbeline (2014), and Michael Almereyda's Hamlet. Her academic research, most recently a study of sex and gender categories in Umayyad Iberia, has been published in The Macksey Journal, of Johns Hopkins University, and The Lambda Alpha Journal. She was a contributing editor at the celebrated science literary journal Lyceum for several years, where she focused on the intersections between science and politics. Kotis's numerous accolades include the Robert L. Baker Prize in History, the Margaret Mead Award for Excellence in Anthropology, the Muriel B. Kahrl Award for studies in American Women's Culture, Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Competition, and the James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting.

Kotis recently completed a Collections Fellowship at the Museum of the City of New York, identifying unsigned mid century Broadway costume and set designs. Her research on the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay can be read in Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay, which was edited by Daniel Mark Epstein and is forthcoming from Yale University Press. Kotis graduated from Kenyon College with distinction and highest honors in Anthropology in 2020, and LaGuardia High School, where she majored in Drama, in 2015. She is a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honors Society, and the Dramatist Guild of America.