About Rena

Based in Los Angeles, Rena is a writer and producer whose work spans television, theatre, and literary fiction.

She has been telling stories since childhood, when she wrote, illustrated, and stapled together her first four-page book, and teachers encouraged that talent at every stage of her education.

In high school at The Webb Schools in Claremont, California, Rena was a collaborating author on The Boarding School Survival Guide. She stayed in Claremont for college at Scripps College, where she spent most of her time on the pre-med track while writing on the side. In 2018, her short play The Noise of the Storm, about three women facing the aftermath of the natural disasters of fall 2017, was staged at Pomona College's Seaver Theatre. She graduated in 2019 with a degree in English and creative writing.

After college, she began building a career in writing and theatre. Her short stories and poetry appeared in The Sunflower Station Press, The Heduan Review, The Calendula Review, and the Sanctuaries Anthology. In 2021, her short play The Noise of the Storm was produced, and she became Executive Director of Imaginarium Theatre NY, where she produced new stage works and readings in New York. That same year, her children's animated pilot was a semi-finalist for the NBCUniversal Animation Writers Fellowship.

Sitting in on law classes showed Rena a way to bring her interests together, so she enrolled at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles to study entertainment law.

In 2023, Pyar aur Coffee was named a Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist and in the the summer of 2024, before her final year of law school, she premiered Pyar aur Coffee at the Long Beach Shakespeare Company's New Works Festival, where it sold out and added a performance.

In 2025, Rena graduated from law school. She was a staff writer on Peacock's The Warehouse Phase and wrote two of its six episodes and was a finalist in the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles's Launchpad Pitch Competition. She produced Mayuri Bhandari's The Anti-Yogi at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and her short play When L.A. Burns was produced at the Morgan Wixon Theatre's L.A. Chapters Festival. At Bootleg Universe and Shankar Animation she moved into business affairs and the creative team, putting her legal training and storytelling instincts to work side by side, and contributed to Netflix's Devil May Cry.

In early 2026, her play When LA Burns was selected for Abingdon Theatre Company's BIPOC festival in New York. She is currently in post-production on her first feature film as a writer and producer and continues to develop new work, including feature films and a musical.

She is always searching for more stories to tell.