Deepika Arwind is an international playwright and theatre-maker originally from Bangalore whose work has been presented across India, the USA and Europe. She has won or been nominated for several awards, including the Toto Award, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, and The Hindu Playwright Award. She was recently a playwright-in-residence at Jagriti, part of The International Conference of Insecurity – a collective of performers from eight countries based in Zurich (2022), and playwright-in-residence for the Welt/Buehne season at the Residenztheater in Munich. She will be a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart for most of 2023.