rehana

Bio

Rehana Mirza is a filmmaker and playwright, as well as the Artistic Director of Desipina & Company (www.desipina.org), which combines her love for both filmmaking and playwriting.

She has recently finished her first feature film as both writer and director of Hiding Divya, currently in festivals. The independent film features Pooja Kumar, as well as Bombay Dreams stars Madhur Jaffrey and Deep Katdare (www.hidingdivya.com).

Film writing and directing credits also include the short film Modern Day Arranged Marriage, which was adapted from her ten-minute play. It has played at over thirty film festivals internationally, and was selected as a semi-finalist for NBC's 1st annual Comedy Short Cuts DiverseCity Film Festival. It also recently had its national television premiere on Logo Networks in the Best in Short Film series. Additional screenwriting credits include: Far From Home (Sundance Feature Film Lab Finalist), Tiger Meat (LightHouse Productions), Fillum Star: The Peter Patel Story, Quarter Life Crisis, (with Lisa Ray and Russell Peters), Paradise, and There's Something About Marriage (2006 IFP Emerging Narrative Selection).
Rehana holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing and Asian Pacific American Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. She is a Leopold Schepp Scholar, an LMCC Artist Grant Recipient, and a member of the Obie Award-winning Ma-Yi Writer's Lab.