Featured in Variety’s “100 Writers to Watch” (2015), Nayna is a former NYC analyst, a former DC policy writer, a former international aid director, and a former touring dancer.  Her plays have been staged and produced in numerous cities including: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago. She is the recipient of an East West Players playwright scholarship and a Moving Arts Theater playwright fellowship. In recent years, Nayna has been a Cimientos fellow with New York’s IATI Theater, a semi-finalist with the Gary Marshall Theater, and a finalist for the O’Neill Conference, PlayPenn, Screenwriters Colony and Harold Clurman playwright-in-residence program.

Currently an Unlock Her Potential fellow, Nayna is an alumna of The Salon initiative (2021), Disney ABC TV Writers Program (2019) and the Sesame Street Writers Program (2018). She has written for Disney, ABC, Netflix, DreamWorks, Mattel and won a development deal with Sesame Street. Recent credits include ABC’s The Baker and The Beauty, Disney’s Encanto, an upcoming Disney film, and a Netflix live-action YA fantasy show.