WAM Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston sits down with Playwright Geetha Reddy to discuss Geetha’s play Far, Far Better Things—featured in WAM’s 2024 Fresh Takes Play Reading Series. Listen in as she shares her inspirations for the play and insights into her creative process.

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Bio

Geetha Reddy (playwright, Far, Far Better Thing) is a playwright and filmmaker working in the Bay Area. Her plays include: Mahābhārata (Oakland Theatre Project) Far, Far Better Things (Shotgun Players/ TheatreFirst), Hela (with Lauren Gunderson, TheatreFirst), Safe House (SF Playhouse), Blastosphere (with Aaron Loeb, CentralWorks). Geetha’s plays Me Given You, Girl in a Box, and On a Wonderverse  were part of the Playwright’s Foundation’s ‘In the Rough’ reading series. Safe House and On a Wonderverse were featured in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She has been commissioned by TheatreWorks, SFPlayhouse,  Oakland Theatre Project, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire, the Gerbode Foundation, and PlayGround (3). Her plays have also appeared in the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the Santa Rosa Quickies festival, the Best of PlayGround Festival, the Just Theatre Lab series, the Crowded Fire Matchbox series, and the Theatreworks New Works Festival. Film Credits: Her short film Obit appeared at LA Shorts, NY Indie Fest, Bend Film Festival, the GI Film Festival and many others. Memberships: Geetha is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild and alumna Resident Playwright at the Playwright’s Foundation.