Ayesha Siddiqui is a Los Angeles based playwright of Pakistani-American descent. Her work explores time and memory, our relationship to nature, earth, and the creatures on it, and ponders how we are impacting and being impacted by climate change.
Works include: The Intervention (Climate 10-Minute Play Festival, 2023; Best of Playground-LA 2022). Jaldee/Hurry (WAVE Director's Festival, 2023; The Vagrancy's Blossoming New Works Festival, 2021), The Young Woman is a Boar (Atlantic Theater/NYU Tisch One Act Festival 2021), Water Lily (Semifinalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2020) and Baba, Jee (Father, Yes) (Hollywood Fringe Scholarship Winner, 2018).
In 2019, she was selected for the inaugural Sundance Institute Los Angeles Playwriting Intensive. She is a member of the Playground-LA writer's pool (2022-present) and is a 2x Best of Playground-LA recipient (2022, 2023).
Read her work on the New Play Exchange.