Maansi Sahay Seth
About
Maansi works as a dramaturg with creative partner and playwright B.J. Tindal, provides creative consulting services, and collaborates with creatives and organizations that support local artists.
Creative Consultant
Maansi provides creative consultant services to both individual and non-profit clients.As a creative consultant, Maansi works to develop the content and structure of clients' personal and professional writing projects, including essays, plays, and musicals.In addition, Maansi reviews, assesses, and scores submissions of original work for a non-profit that provides micro-grants to DC-based creatives.
DRAMATURG
As a dramaturg, Maansi engages in detailed deconstruction and analysis of original scripts, including dissecting characters, major themes, humor, rhetoric, and inconsistencies, to reconstruct and form a unified vision.
“The Queer Couch”
Zayn, Nola, and Tia are three friends at Kennedy College who are each having trouble moving past the misery and humiliation of their high school experience. When the three get together and recount their own unresolved pain, they decide to enact their revenge by returning to high school and situating themselves at the top of the food chain. However, when their differing objectives and desires start to run into each other, a power struggle ensues within the group itself.
“What We Look Like”
A Black family of five moves from a predominantly Black neighborhood to a white neighborhood in the suburbs. The youngest son creates an imaginary white family, which he illustrates in a family portrait that he draws in school.
“Goodnight, Tyler”
Depending on who you ask, Tyler Evans was “a beloved best friend, grandson, mentor, and fiancé,” or, “Tyler Evans was a young Black man killed by a police officer.” Desperate to control the contradicting narratives of his untimely passing, Tyler haunts his best friend as his other friends and relatives argue over his legacy, seeking an elusive common ground.
“A Five Year Plan”
In this romantic comedy pop rock musical, four millennials try to navigate the conflicting commitments of their careers and relationships in young professional DC.
“Yes, Everytime”
Imaginary friend Shonari is the only one who sees Cam as they are; Not a boy. Not a girl. Just a smart-ass 13-year-old who loves comic books, black dresses, and Chance the Rapper. But when Mom insists they are too old for imaginary friends, Shonari is sentenced to death. After a terrible accident leaves them unconscious, Cam enters the imaginary world where they must decide whether to stay and save Shonari, or to return to a place that makes them feel invisible.