Nimisha Ladva was born in Kenya to Indian immigrants, raised in the U.K. and currently lives outside Philadelphia. She is a dual British and U.S. citizen. Nimisha is a playwright, screenwriter, and storyteller. Her fiction and non-fiction writing has been published in the U.S and U.K., including a recent personal essay in The Guardian. Her storytelling performances have been broadcast on NPR and BBC Radio 4 on The Moth Radio Hour and on PBS’s Stories from the Stage. In 2022, her play Goddess at the Lucky Lady Motel was a Play Penn New Play Development Conference selection, a finalist for the Jane Chambers Award in Feminist Playwriting, and featured in The Bechdel Group’s Sunday Shorts Program. Her play, “Laundry is Not Enough,” was a 2022 finalist in the Red Bull Short Play Festival. Nimisha was a 2020 finalist at SPACE at Ryder Farm, an artist residency. In 2019, she was selected for the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. Her solo play, Uninvited, which tells the true story of her journey from becoming an undocumented immigrant to a U.S.citizen, was initially staged at the First Person Arts Festival in 2016, and premiered in New York at the Women in Theater Festival in 2018. She is currently a member of The Foundry, Philadelphia’s three-year playwright incubator. She teaches writing and public speaking at Haverford College.