Hi! I’m Shruti. I’m an Indian American TV writer, emerging filmmaker, and third-culture kid. I’ve written for a few different shows in drama, comedy, live-action, and animation at Netflix and Amazon, and most recently, I was an ESE on the sexy sci-fi comedy SLIP (Roku).
I grew up in India, England, and the United States, collecting cool accents as my parents collected advanced degrees. Then, I attended college at the University of Michigan, where I studied biochemistry & biology and feigned an interest in Big 10 football.
Before I became a screenwriter, I spent several years working in healthcare tech for start-ups and, eventually, big pharmaceutical brands, then, I 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 and TV upon returning to civilization.
I love comedy and genre with levity & my stories are often about women making unconventional choices or characters questioning the status quo of their lives. I also love the sciences, and this tends to find its way into my work.
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 contact me here if you’d like to work with me, read something I’ve written, or tell me the future. You can also find me on Twitter/X @shrutesnladders and on tennis courts all over Los Angeles.
My reps are Allie Cohen & Bash Naran at WME and Hannah Ozer & Quincie Li at Kaplan Perrone.
Thanks for dropping by!