DJINN Digital Program

Aditi Pradhan (Playwright) writes about family relationships, social change, and the South Asian diaspora. Her play The Great Tikka Tour, which had a sold-out production at the 2025 SheArts Festival, was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre 2025 National Playwrights Conference, the 2025 Princess Grace Fellowship, and the 2025 Ojai Playwrights Conference. Aditi has been a resident at Blue Mountain Center and was the finalist for the 2025 Blacklist x The Movement Theatre Company Ladder Commission. She’s a recipient of the Signpost Fellowship for BIPOC writers. In high school, she was nominated as “Most Dependable,” which is the highest honor she’s received.

Reena Dutt (Director) is a director of theatre, film and audio, dedicated to new and reimagined texts that make us question our own beliefs through stories by (and with) the under-heard. In theatre, her Broadway debut was at MTC on The Collaboration starring Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope, led by Kwame Kwei Armah. She has directed/developed regionally at The Public, East West Players, Amphibian, Central Square, and Theatre Mu to name a few. She is an alum of AFI DWW+, Project Involve, Drama League and Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a fellow with SFFilm, TAP, and LA Performance Practice.

Deepti Gupta (Nasrin) is an award winning TV, film and voice actress who can currently be seen on HBO Max’s Emmy-winning drama, The Pitt, alongside Noah Wyle. Her previous guest starring roles include High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Little Fires Everywhere, For All Mankind, NCIS, Barry, and Macgyver. She also starred in the American comedy-drama, India Sweets & Spices, that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Behind the mic, she has appeared opposite Jack Black in DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda: Dragon Knight and co-stars in the GLAAD Media award & BAFTA Games award winning video game, Thirsty Suitors. Deepti graduated from the UT at Austin with an MFA in Acting.

Mueen Jahan (Shuvo) TV and Film: The Rehearsal, The Sex Lives of College Girls, I Think You Should Leave, New Girl, Victorious , Law and Order, The Sopranos, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Grown-ish, Conan O’Brien. Stage: Bombay Dreams on Broadway, Homebody/Kabul at The Mark Taper Forum, 12 Angry Men at The Laguna Playhouse, Dhaba on Devon at The Writers Theatre in Chicago.

Priya Mohanty (Lata) is a multi-hyphenate artist. She’s an actor, screenwriter, playwright and classic over-thinker. Priya came to America from India for her MBA at Duke. She left her corporate career behind for the high-risk, higher-reward world of acting and storytelling. Her notable credits include the world premiere of Queen at Victory Gardens in Chicago for which she received a BroadwayWorld Nomination for Best Actress, Next on FOX, Chicago Med on NBC, and the award-winning short film Prayer for Childless. Priya wrote, produced, and acted in the pilot of her series FOBia that won numerous accolades.

Achintya Pandey (Ayan, Rahul) is thrilled to be back performing with Artists at Play after the world premiere production of नेहा & Neel by Ankita Raturi. Originally from the Bay Area, he moved to Los Angeles to study acting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where he was the lead in Everybody by Branden Jacob-Jenkins and seen in The Successful Life of Three and Hamlet. He would like to thank his amazing family and partner for being his pillars, and his niece/nephew who has just arrived or almost here!

Anusree Roy (Monisha) is a writer and actor currently serving as Co-Executive Producer and writer for Allegiance (S4). Her television credits include Interview with the Vampire (AMC), Transplant (NBC/Netflix), SkyMed (Paramount+), and I Woke Up a Vampire (Netflix). A four-time Dora Mavor Moore Award winner (Canada’s Tonys) and two-time Governor General’s Literary Award nominee, she was also a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. As an actor, she is a current Canadian Screen Award nominee (Canada’s Emmys) and performed two seasons at the Stratford Festival. Anusree has authored and premiered ten plays, holds an M.A. from the University of Toronto, and has been a playwriting professor for four years.

Syona Varty (Djinn, Stage Directions) is an Indian, Belgian, and American, Los Angeles–based actor, director, writer, and producer. A graduate of NYU Tisch, they trained at Playwrights Horizons and the Lee Strasberg Institute. Syona is the founder and Artistic Director of Imaginarium Theatre Company, where they’ve produced over 40 original plays and events that spotlight diverse voices. Their third-culture identity and commitment to inclusion shape a creative vision rooted in equity, global perspective, and social impact through the performing arts.