Sabrina Dhawan

Sabrina Dhawan is the screenwriter of Monsoon Wedding, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe and BAFTA. Other work includes Cosmopolitan (PBS), Kaminey and Ishqiya and the Monsoon Wedding stage musical (Berkeley Rep). She has written for 20th Century Fox, HBO, Netflix, Disney, Fox Searchlight, ABC Family, Killer Films, UTV and Excel Entertainment for whom she’s developing Chardi Kala. She is a Professor at NYU’s Tisch School and has taught across the US, India, Uganda, Tanzania, Singapore, and Qatar.

Set in 1983 Delhi, India, Sabrina will be working on a screenplay with multiple narratives. The lives of ambitious, spineless bureaucrats, and their unraveling family lives; their domestic staff edging toward rebellion, and their convent-schooled teenagers confronting shame and sexual desire. All told in the backdrop of a socialist country that is on the cusp of sweeping liberalization and change – and the seismic aftermath of the assassination of a Prime Minister.