1. Lina Patel
linskipatel@gmail.com
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Tel: 310-288-800
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Writing Vitae
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TELEVISION
“Frequency” – Warner Brothers.
“The 100” – Warner Brothers.
STAGE
Full-length plays
Untitled
December, 2014, Circle X Theater Workshop. Director: Jennifer Chang.
The Half Breed Spy or, How I Learned to Love Imperialists
January 2015, NEA Grant, Circle X Theater Workshop, upcoming. Director: Tim
Wright.
November 2012, Circle X Theater Reading. Director: John Langs.
Love Play
October 2012, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Reading, Lue Douthit, dramaturge.
October 2011, Yale Repertory Theater Reading, NY. Director: Eric Ting.
Spring, 2010, Commissioned by Yale Repertory Theater Center for New Plays.
Disappearance of Luck
Summer, 2011, New Harmony Project, public reading.
Neel and Nicky
August 2012, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Presents.
December 2010, The New Group Public Presentation, NY. Director: Ian Morgan.
The Ragged Claws
Spring, 2014, Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project. Director: Jedadiah Schultz.
November 2011, The Lark, roundtable. Director: Lisa Rothe.
February 2010, Silk Road Theater Project, development reading.
May 2008, Center Theater Group, developed. Pier Carlo Talenti, dramaturge.
Desire
August 2010, Silk Road Theater Project development reading.

2. January 2009, The New Group workshop. Director: Ian Morgan.
Short Plays
Canary
Fall 2014. Commissioned and produced by Chalk Repertory Theater for Flash
Fest. Director: Shaheen Vaz.
Belief
September 2012. Commissioned and produced by Chalk Repertory Theater at the
Page Science Museum. Director: Larissa Kokernot.
Sweet Life
July 2013, produced at the Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival, New York
City. Director: Jedadiah Schultz
December 2012, produced at Circle X Theater. Dirctor: Timothy Wright.
That Could Be You
January 2011, Voices and Visions Special Performance Event, USC. Director:
Steve Scott.
March 2010, Commissioned and produced by Silk Road Theater in collaboration
with The Goodman, Chicago. Director: Steve Scott.
AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES and COMMISSIONS
Sewanee Writer’s Conference, 2016 (Upcoming)
Fall 2014 National Endowment for the Arts - Art Works Grant (Theatre)
Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project Fellowship
Warner Brothers Writers Workshop – 2013-2014
ARC Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, 2014
Sewanee Writer’s Conference Walter E. Dakin Playwriting Fellow, 2013.
Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, 2013. One of eight plays selected
to be produced out of over eight hundred submissions.
New Harmony Project Fellow. Nine residencies for two-week writing retreat; fellow
writers in attendance: Dan O’Brien, Robert Schenkkan and Theresa Rebeck, 2011.
Yale Repertory New Play Commission, 2012.

3. Silk Road Theater Project Commission, 2009.
The Lark Theater's Playwright's Week, NY. Eleven writers selected out of four hundred
applicants, 2008.
Center Theater Group's Writers Retreat. Nine writers selected for yearlong writers group;
fellow writers including Alexander Woo, Rolin Jones and Paul Grellong, 2008-2009.
Center Theater Group Sherwood Award Finalist, 2007
Sundance Theatre Institute Semi-finalist, (“Desire”), 2007.
Full Graduate Fellowship. University of San Diego.
Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, New York University.
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre.
BFA in Theatre Arts, New York University/Tisch School of the Arts.
OTHER
Lina is also a critically acclaimed actor and voice-over artist.