Writing & Research
I have been commissioned to produce a research essay on a curated theatre workshop at Serendipity Arts Festival 2024.
I have previously been selected to participate in Summer Institute [ SI ] 2022 – a fully-funded summer writing program organised by the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program for young Indian, Pakistani, and American writers.
My poems have been published in:
A Letter, A Poem, A Home – A Collection of Poems and Essays
The Bombay Literary Magazine
Scroll.in
Bangalore Review
Communications
I’ve worked across marketing and outreach on the UK tour of Frankie Goes to Bollywood – facilitating advertising campaigns, social media promotion, print and digital assets, and market research – across ten venues including the Southbank Centre in London.
I’ve supported Bland Communications in securing media coverage and planning press events for luxury food, drink, and beauty brands, working with journalists at top lifestyle online and print publications like Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, Evening Standard, Metro, and more.
My work with Neon Performing Arts is ongoing, spanning two years of creative social media management, design, and copywriting to increase youth engagement in the arts in South London. More recently, I led the social media campaign for their pilot festival – Colours & Cultures – featuring established and emerging artists in a celebration of South London’s diverse community and green spaces.
Publishing
My academic training informs my work as a freelance proofreader with Pan Macmillan India and Penguin SEA.
I have worked with meticulous attention-to-detail and adherence to industry standards across non-fiction works, classics, and anthologies, ensuring accuracy, coherence, and accessibility.
Over the redrafting process, Nidhi has not simply offered line and scene amendments, she’s empowered me to reach into the core of my story and reinvestigate the purpose, motivation and humanity of what I’m trying to say. Nidhi is an expert at dissecting meaning, setting exercises to enhance a character’s dimensions, and enabling me as a writer to break out of my own pre-designed dramatic structure. Her style is warm, comprehensive, and fluid – with every report or feedback session giving me new ground in which to grow my story. A fantastic creative mind and a truly lovely person. I can’t recommend her highly enough.
Nidhi’s dramaturgical support on my piece was great and really useful. Having an initial zoom with Nidhi helped me establish where I was at in the development process of a one person show. I really felt that she listened to what I needed and understood where I was at in my process; her support was for a rehearsed reading and she understood that by giving detailed and thorough tips of how to dramaturgically elevate the piece. Even picking out key themes/ words and isolating them for me helped me to know where my piece situated thematically and what key things stood out. I would recommend using Nidhi as I really felt she listened to what I needed, wanted and where I was at!
Nidhi’s careful and intelligent editorial suggestions, along with her attention to detail, have been invaluable across several projects we’ve worked on together.