Madhuri Shekar (she/her) is a playwright based in Jersey City. She is the 2020 winner of the Lanford Wilson playwriting award, an alumnus of the Juilliard Playwrights Program and a fellow at New Dramatists. Her Audible audio play EVIL EYE won a 2020 Audie Award for best original work. Her plays have been produced or developed at the Alliance Theatre, Victory Gardens, California Shakespeare Theater, the Center Theatre Group, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center, Hedgebrook Playwrights' Festival, and the Old Globe.

She co-created the web mini-series 'Titus and Dronicus': www.titusanddronicus.com. In TV and film, she wrote the feature adaptation of her play 'Evil Eye', now streaming on Amazon Prime. She wrote for the TV show THE NEVERS on HBOMax and is a writer on the upcoming Netflix sci-fi epic THREE BODY PROBLEM.