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Ankita Singh
Ankita Singh is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and documentary director raised between Chandigarh and Kirikiriroa. She can trace her ancestry to the Himalayan hill station of Ranikhet, Aligarh and pre-partition Lahore in Punjab.
Her half-hour action-comedy GIVE ME BABIES won Best Comedy at the 2024 TVNZ Awards.
She debuted as a playwright with her neo-noir action-comedy play BASMATI BITCH, making history as the first South Asian woman to be commissioned in New Zealand by Auckland Theatre Company, NZ's largest theatre company. The play premiered at Q Rangatira in 2023 - the season was extended twice due to popular demand.
Her latest documentary PREDICT MY FUTURE sheads light on the ground breaking research of the world-leading Dunedin Longitudinal Study, answering the question on why and how we age. It is now available to stream in NZ on TVNZ+.
She is currently working on her next play RABID - a magic-realist horror set in the foothills of the Himalayas and developing multilingual children's videogame HINE with her company Four Eyed Princess.
She is currently working on her next play RABID - a magic-realist horror set in the foothills of the Himalayas and developing multilingual children's videogame HINE with her company Four Eyed Princess.