About

Malaika Fernandes (she/her/hers) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and casting professional from Mumbai and a few other places, whose work explores her own ever-changing definition of home. Her plays include MULAQAT (2025 Beyond The Realm, 2025 INK'D Festival, Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award, Wesleyan University), Banjaara (Workshop Theatre), and Eyebrows On (Horizon Theatre Young Playwrights Festival).

She graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in Theater and Economics, where she received the Theater Outreach & Community Service Award and the Rachel Henderson Award for Excellence in Theater. Malaika was the 2023-24 Producing & Community Engagement Apprentice at Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. and a 2024-25 Writing Fellow at The Playwrights Realm. She's currently the Casting Assistant at Manhattan Theatre Club.