https://www.aalishasheth.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/1597990052613-Q4SL8HY6MVDOX57ER478/IMG_20200722_192840.jpg Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/7de03ea4-8831-46e0-9407-71cb6c59da5f/Aalisha+2.png Miller https://www.aalishasheth.com/collaborations daily 0.75 2023-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/1568324075870-E1YDCR7CGCGDRF9W5TZF/Collab-01-Dance-Like-A-Mother.png COLLABORATIONS - Dance Like A Mother Dance Like A Mother is a performance piece about growing old and discovering that we are slowly becoming our parents or versions of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/1568323859293-GDRYV28GBW5TRDU9JJRG/Collab-02-36-Questions-in-Proximity-of-A-Conversation.PNG COLLABORATIONS - 36 Questions In Proximity Of A Conversation A six-hour long immersive participatory experience about making space for listening, responding and play in a city that is known for it's race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/1568323849393-TPXYAQ99JCLIZ3B4DK82/Collab-03-7-Jewish-Children.jpg COLLABORATIONS - Seven Jewish Children Observations and Claims on Memory and Performance. https://www.aalishasheth.com/press daily 0.75 2025-09-09 https://www.aalishasheth.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/7135ff1e-d29b-4d16-aeba-9a3eef190c0c/ALFT+2.png WRITING - Make it stand out A LETTER FOR TOMORROW Story, Screenplay and Dialogues Format/Genre: short film, drama Status: World Premiere at BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2026 What’s it about? Multi-generational women in a matriarchal family find a way to reconcile while each of them overcomes personal conflicts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/bd046019-b402-4239-87ee-3457f5720d36/Screen+Shot+2024-03-24+at+2.13.58+PM.png WRITING - SHOWTIME Staff Writer (S1) Format/Genre: Telvision Series, Drama Status: Streaming on Jio Hotstar What’s it about? Features the power struggles and off-camera fights occurring in the backstage areas of Bollywood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/1614258007759-HRQ5573WSMGEY4S5H5V0/9.png WRITING - UNITED STATES OF ALIENS Writer, Creator, Executive Producer Format/Genre: Half-hour, comedy Status: The pilot episode is currently streaming on OTV- Open Television What’s it about? United States of Aliens is an unfiltered look at the lives of 20-something "non-resident aliens” aka international post-grads Uduak and Rishita, and their failed attempts to culturally assimilate into everyday American life in Chicago, while they (legally) can. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/fa3c209c-b243-413d-b794-5fbb52c3cd42/Screen+Shot+2024-03-24+at+2.22.45+PM.png WRITING - TITAN RETURNSHIP AD Writer Format/Genre: Digital Ad Status: Watch on Youtube What’s it about? Titan’s returnship program, SEQUAL -redefines women’s return to the workforce and empowers them to dream again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/1617443622615-SM0C8HL7LGZIL4SXAK2O/The+Last+Plait.png WRITING - THE LAST PLAIT Playwright Format/Genre: One-act play/Dramedy Status: Production with Nothing Without A Company for thr New World Play Festival, Chicago (2018) and production with Ekjut Theatre, performed at the South Asia Institute in Chicago (2021). What’s it about? The Last Plait, is a play about a hypercritical mother Raksha and her defiant daughter Mukti, and the (dysfunctional) intimacy they share with each other. When Mukti returns home to Raksha after a period of absence, they learn to cope with their past, confront their present and fight for their future, over hair-care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/a87dcf53-1594-4a26-9e42-72d20efe9cbc/PXL_20220302_115924922.jpg WRITING - MS ALPHU - A RELUCTANT SUPERFRUITTHE Writer Format/Genre: Short Fiction, Coming-of-age Status: Published in 2023 in The Punch Magazine (UK) as a part of the online flip book collection that emerged from Spaces Between Words: The Unfestival Season 3, held in Ratnagiri in 2022. What’s it about? Ms Alphu - A Reluctant Superfruit is a site-specific rumination about what would be, if alphonso mangoes were little girls growing up in a patriarchal world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/1619158426348-0KCZR8U2PMDPGG3SDUQX/Cold+Reads%2C+Hot+Scripts.png WRITING - VICE VERSA Writer, Executive Producer Format/Genre: Feature Film, Dramedy Status: Selected for Cold Reads, Hot Scripts Reading Series at the iO Theater in Chicago. Currently in development. What’s it about? A lo-fi sci-fi dramedy feature about an estranged workaholic mother and her woke teenage daughter who embark on a long and arduous connecting flight. What could go right? https://www.aalishasheth.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d52375ccdc49900011fca92/6f19febb-6a29-459e-ace9-4962ea6e9be7/image-asset.jpg ACHIEVEMENTS - AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS - World Premiere of at BFI Flare Film Festival 2026, “A Letter for Tomorrow” - Taught a ‘Foundations of Screenwriting’ workshop at 3 Art House, Mumbai, 2025 - Mentor at Soho House Mumbai Mentorship Program 2025 - Semifinalist Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Spring 2025 - Awarded The Rishi Himalayan Scholarship to attend The Himalayan Screenwriting Retreat 2023 - Short fiction published in The Punch Magazine, “Ms Alphu: The Reluctant Superfruit”, 2023 - Netflix x NFDC India Scriptwriting Programme Alum, 2022 - Spaces Between Words -The Unfestival Writer’s Residency, Ratnagiri, India 2022 - Ekjut x South Asia Institute Chicago staged production, “The Last Plait”, 2021 - NALIP’s Emerging Content Creators Scholarship, Fellow, 2020 - Finalist for Original TV Pilot – Bigfoot Script Challenge ,”The Reincarnates” , 2019 - The Wirtz Center for Performing Arts, NU MFA Reading Series ,”The Reincarnates” , 2019 - Emerging Storytellers of Chicago, sponsored by Hannibal Buress. #OTVSundance, 2019 - Chicago South Asian Film Festival , Special Mention Screening, “United States of Aliens”, 2019 - iO Improv Theater, Selected Writer July , Cold Reads, Hot Scripts, “Vice Versa”, 2019 - Advanced Sitcom Award Recipient, Northwestern University, “United States of Aliens” , 2019 - Semi-finalist for The MACRO Episodic Lab , “United States of Aliens”, 2018 - New World Play Festival, production, “The Last Plait”, 2018