Hi! I’m Shruti. I’m an Indian American TV writer, emerging filmmaker, and third-culture kid. I write across genres and love edgy comedies and grounded sci-fi. I’ve written on a few different shows in drama, live-action, and animation at Netflix and Amazon. Most recently, I was an ESE for Season 2 of SLIP, a sci-fi comedy on Roku!
I grew up in India, England, and the United States, collecting cool accents as my parents collected advanced degrees. I attended college at the University of Michigan where I studied biochemistry & biology and feigned an interest in big 10 football.
After school, I moved to Austin, TX, where I spent several years working in healthcare tech for big pharmaceutical brands, then left my job to hand-build a cabin in the Colorado wilderness with my husband. I wrote my first original pilot during my time off from manual labor and decided to pursue film & TV upon returning to civilization.
Recent screenwriting accolades include the 2019 Austin Film Festival semi-finals, 2019 Warner Brothers Workshop finals, and 2020 HUMANITAS New Voices semi-finals. And in 2020, I made the CAPE List, a list of the top 10 Asian-inclusive pilots on The Black List.
You can find me on Twitter @shrutesnladders. You can also contact me here if you’d like to work with me, read something I’ve written, or tell me about the future.
I am repped by Allie Cohen and Bash Naran at WME.
Thanks for dropping by!