salwa meghjee
writer
Salwa Meghjee is a Muslim-Indian-Floridian writer. She is currently in the playwriting program at Juilliard, and holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Northwestern. She has developed work with her producing org Pizza Party Press co-founded with Sarah Marlin, as well as Trove, Mudlark Theater, 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, Sanguine Theatre Company, National Queer Theater, The Tank, The New Victory Theater, UC Berkeley, The Golden Theatre Company, Soho Rep, and Playwrights’ Center. Her plays are surreal, darkly comic, lean into the serendipity of live theater, and illuminate the big unnameable feelings we all have that we can’t explain. They have fun titles such as Love Jihad <3, Obligate Carnivores, Make Happy, U-Haul Mesbians, Ender’s Gay, Never Forget That Jasper Cullen Was a Confederate Soldier, and, written with her twin sister Samah, The Mysterious Mystery of the Lost Letters (Brooklyn Publishers). salwameghjee.com


A review of Salwa by a psychotherapist.