Priya came to America in from India to get her MBA from Duke University and started working a corporate job in Chicago. A series of fortunate events and a dare from a friend led her to acting. In 2015, she made the very practical decision to quit her corporate job to pursue life as an artist, student loans be damned. She trained at ‘School at Steppenwold’ in acting and appeared on several prominent Chicago stage productions including the world premier of ‘Queen’ at Victory Gardens and ‘Gender Breakdown’ at Collaboraction.
Seeing a dearth of immigrant representation in American media, she started writing to give immigrants like her a voice. In 2019, she wrote, acted and produced the pilot of her web series ‘FOBia’ which won several awards for ‘Best Pilot’ and ‘Best Web Series’ including at omni TV Festival, T.O Webfest, New Delhi Film Festival to name a few. Her scripts have placed in the Red List on Coverfly (top 1%) and placed in Austin Film Festival, WeScreenplay, Screencraft, Outstanding Screenplays and Atlanta Film Festival as well as winning at Cinequest Screenwriting Competition.
Priya recently moved to LA (well, Santa Clarita, but that’s almost LA). She lives with her husband and two young kids and really enjoys toddler tantrums and sleepless nights. Or so she tells herself.