Only the Good Stuff About Me
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MFA: Playwriting, Columbia University; BFA: Dramatic Writing, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
Rehana is currently the co-director of the Ma-Yi Theater’s Writer’s Lab alongside her husband, Michael Lew. In the past, she has been a Leopold Schepp scholar, a 2G Resident Artist, the recipient of an EST/Sloan Commission, LMCC artist grant, John Golden Award, the 2010 Lark/IAAC Playwright Residency, and a TCG Future Leaders mentorship with New Georges/Susan Bernfield. She has also been a Princess Grace finalist and semi-finalist, a Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, and a Sundance Feature Film Lab finalist.
Rehana’s full-length plays have been produced/developed at: Asian American Theater Company (San Francisco), Stages Theater (Los Angeles), Studio Space @ Theater Row, HERE Arts Center, Rasik Arts (Toronto), and Asian American Arts Centre (Philadelphia). Her short plays have been presented at the Culture Project, EST, The Flea, Center Stage NY, The Tenement Museum, Richmond Shepard Theater, Artwallah (Los Angeles), CSV Center (2G), and Abrons Arts Center. Her play, BARRIERS, was published with the Alexander Street Press, and was on the theater curriculum at Berkeley, West Virginia University, and Yale University.
Her short plays have also been published with the Alexander Street Press as well as in The New York Theater Review, with Blue Box Productions Best of Sticky Series. Her short film, Modern Day Arranged Marriage has toured to over 40 festivals internationally and won the audience award at NBC's DiverseCity Short Cuts Festival. Her feature film, Hiding Divya, starring veteran Madhur Jaffrey and Pooja Kumar, was released theatrically in 2010 and is currently touring to schools. Rehana is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Desipina Productions (www.desipina.org).
