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Minita Gandhi
Minita Gandhi (she/they) is a Los Angeles-based multi-hyphenate who was born in Mumbai, India. They love magical realism, dark comedy and exploring multigenre, multicultural and multigenerational stories as a medium for healing. Minita is currently working as a librettist on an opera commission with Minnesota Opera, adapting The Many Deaths of Laila Starr. Gandhi is the lyricist for Rising Tide, a choral-orchestral piece on climate change activism composed by Emmy Award-winning composer Jonathan Beard.
Nerve, a full-length play, was workshopped and developed at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2023 New Works Festival and with the support of The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2022. Nerve is a winner of the Ashland New Plays Festival (2024) and received support from the Lucille Lortel Theatre's Alcove New Play Development Program (2023). Minita was a featured playwright at the NNPN National Showcase in 2024 and a 2022 NYSAF Pfaelzer Award finalist.
Their solo show Muthaland was Jeff Recommended for best new work and solo performance and was an official selection of the Ignition Festival, NNPN's Women in Playwriting Festival at Florida Studio Theater and the Anne Frank Social Justice Festival. Gandhi has been featured in NBC News and The Atlantic.
Minita has appeared in more than 30 plays at 20 regional theaters. Their television credits include Deli Boys, The Bold and the Beautiful, Chicago Fire and St. Denis Medical.
An activist and healer, Minita founded IGNITE, a national mentorship program for gender-diverse BIPOC theater artists, and co-founded Pathways, a professional development program for gender-diverse BIPOC artists in Portland. Gandhi has been an executive coach for Fortune 50 companies and artistic institutions, working with leaders to create leadership models and practices that foster equity, diversity and inclusion.
Minita has been a keynote speaker for Commit2Change, KCATF and Imagine Talks. Other notable speaking engagements include the Courier 12 Screenwriting Conference, Brighthouse Networks Women's Leadership Conference, In Her Words for SAG-AFTRA and CapGemini in India for International Women's Day.
Minita is a proud member of the Kilroys, SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
Representation: Limitless Management, Gray Talent Group, SBV.
Nerve, a full-length play, was workshopped and developed at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2023 New Works Festival and with the support of The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2022. Nerve is a winner of the Ashland New Plays Festival (2024) and received support from the Lucille Lortel Theatre's Alcove New Play Development Program (2023). Minita was a featured playwright at the NNPN National Showcase in 2024 and a 2022 NYSAF Pfaelzer Award finalist.
Their solo show Muthaland was Jeff Recommended for best new work and solo performance and was an official selection of the Ignition Festival, NNPN's Women in Playwriting Festival at Florida Studio Theater and the Anne Frank Social Justice Festival. Gandhi has been featured in NBC News and The Atlantic.
Minita has appeared in more than 30 plays at 20 regional theaters. Their television credits include Deli Boys, The Bold and the Beautiful, Chicago Fire and St. Denis Medical.
An activist and healer, Minita founded IGNITE, a national mentorship program for gender-diverse BIPOC theater artists, and co-founded Pathways, a professional development program for gender-diverse BIPOC artists in Portland. Gandhi has been an executive coach for Fortune 50 companies and artistic institutions, working with leaders to create leadership models and practices that foster equity, diversity and inclusion.
Minita has been a keynote speaker for Commit2Change, KCATF and Imagine Talks. Other notable speaking engagements include the Courier 12 Screenwriting Conference, Brighthouse Networks Women's Leadership Conference, In Her Words for SAG-AFTRA and CapGemini in India for International Women's Day.
Minita is a proud member of the Kilroys, SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
Representation: Limitless Management, Gray Talent Group, SBV.