The Stage — Rena Patel




Playwright  ·  Producer

The Stage

As Playwright

Plays & Productions

Full-Length Play

Pyar aur Coffee

Four quick-witted and coffee-addicted friends navigate espresso machines, relationships, and South Asian societal expectations through awkward dating app chat messages, even more awkward first dates, and at least one Bollywood dance number.

Space Pirates Theatre Collective — Upcoming
Long Beach Shakespeare Company — New Works Festival · 2024
Virtual Reading — Imaginarium Theatre Company · 2021
Recognition
Bay Area Playwrights Festival — Finalist · 2023
SheNYC Summer Theatre Festival — Semi-Finalist · 2023
SheLA Summer Theatre Festival — Semi-Finalist · 2023
Short Play

When L.A. Burns

As the Santa Ana winds sweep through Los Angeles, a disheartened writer and a rising actor grapple with identity, ambition, and the cost of resilience — revealing the fragile line between chasing dreams and succumbing to reality in a city ablaze with contradictions.

Abingdon Theatre Company — BIPOC Playwrights Festival, New York · 2026
The Morgan Wixon Theatre — L.A. Chapters Festival, Los Angeles · 2025
Short Play

The Noise of the Storm

Three women from vastly different circumstances around the world grapple with the consequences of devastating natural disasters during the fall of 2017.

Seaver Theatre, Pomona College · 2018
Virtual Production — Imaginarium Theatre Company · 2021

As Producer

Producing Credits

The Anti-Yogi

By Mayuri Bhandari. A show that blows the lid off Western yoga culture — performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025.

Producer

Edinburgh Fringe · 2025

I’m Still Here

By Victoria Provost. Produced at The Tank Theatre, New York.

Producer

The Tank Theatre, New York · 2022

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