Riti Sachdeva is a theatre maker and cultural worker. She has been creating art in some shape, form, or rhythm for twenty five years, incorporating text, installation, and dance into her work. Born in India, she is deeply influenced by the vast land, history, mythology and people of her origins. Raised in the U.S., her work is marked by the social and political climate of the Americas. Riti grew up in the Boston area where she participated in various projects and exhibitions as an installation artist and was a founder of South Asian Women for Action (SAWA.) Riti relocated to New Mexico for fifteen years where she received her MFA with honors in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico. She now resides in Brooklyn where she's held fellowships with the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, the Women’s Project Theatre Lab, and the Dramatists Guild, which awarded her the 2019 Thom Thomas award. Her plays have been developed by the Ingram New Works Lab, PlayWrights Center, Manhattan Theatre Works, The Civilians, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, University of Hawaii at Manoa/Center for South Asian Studies, WP Lab, and the National New Play Network. Her play Parts of Parts & Stitches received the Quest for Peace award from the Kennedy Center. Riti’s acting credits include work with DisneyChannel, HBO, lots of cool indie films, Manhattan Theatre Works, Hybrid Theatre, Estrogenius Festival, OmniRootz (Belize), as well as, her devised work with Kalapani Productions which toured festivals in Los Angeles and Toronto and her original work with midNites cHiLd Productions which has been produced in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and NYC. Her solo show, Scene/Unseen won the Outstanding One Act award at Planet Connections. She continues to act with various companies for stage and screen and write her original plays She is also committed to community-based theatre projects that value the lives and struggles of every day people.