Lakshmi Sundaram
Lakshmi Sundaram is an American screenwriter, director, and producer from Brooklyn. She studied writing at Columbia University and earned an MFA in Film from Columbia’s School of the Arts.
Her first TV writing credit was for NBC’s Smash, co-writing the episode “Tech” with Jason Grote. She then wrote for Brooklyn Nine-Nine from 2013 to 2016. In 2018, while working on Master of None, she was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series.
She has worked on acclaimed shows that have won major awards. Sundaram wrote the episode “Protect Ya Neck” for season 2 of Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga; the episode was highly praised and is the series’ highest-rated.
Her name comes from her great-grandmother, Muthulakshmi Reddy, a civil-rights pioneer who was the first woman to sit as Vice President of any legislature in the world, and who was a contemporary of Mahatma Gandhi and Annie Besant. Her relatives include Indian actors Gemini Ganesan and Rekha.
In 2021, Vogue India profiled her achievements and gave her the magazine’s culture section cover.
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