ADITI BRENNAN KAPIL is a television and theatre writer, actress, and director. She is of Bulgarian and Indian descent, and was raised in Sweden prior to moving to Minneapolis, MN and more recently Los Angeles, CA. Recent TV projects include Season 3 of "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" on Amazon, "Away" on Netflix, and Season 2 of "American Gods" on Starz. Recent theatre projects include a new American history play titled "Pax Americana" for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, "Orange" for SouthCoast Repertory Theatre, and "Imogen Says Nothing" for Yale Repertory Theatre. She is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists, and she is currently developing a feature adaptation of "Daughter of the Deep" with Rick Riordan for Disney+.
Aditi’s first play, "Love Person," received the 2009 Stavis Playwriting Award, and her play "Agnes Under the Big Top, a tall tale" was selected as a Distinguished New Play Development project by the NEA as administered by Arena Stage. Her Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy ("Brahman/i, a one-hijra stand-up comedy show"; "The Chronicles of Kalki"; and "Shiv"), based loosely on the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, premiered in repertory at Mixed Blood Theatre in October 2013, and have since been produced across the US and in the UK. "Brahman/i" and "The Chronicles of Kalki" received an unprecedented double nomination for the James Tait Black Prize, University of Edinburgh, UK.