Sabina Sethi Unni (she/her) is a political theater director, performer, writer, organizer, and lover of long self-aggrandizing lists. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Fresh Lime Soda Productions, a contemporary South Asian political theater ensemble and incubator based in NYC. This spring, she is a public space programming partner with the Department of Transportation and is performing a bilingual children’s play about composting throughout their open streets in Brooklyn and Queens. She is currently directing and writing a collaborative performance for Make the Road with workers from DRUM, Local 79, and the Street Vendor Project. She was a 2022 Artist in Residency at NYU and directed and co-wrote Rainy Day Play about climate change and flooding in Edgemere, Gowanus, and Harlem. She is a New City Critics Fellow at the Urban Design Forum, writing about (you guessed it) climate change and flooding. With the support of the Brooklyn Arts Council and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, she is creating a new play about (you guessed it) climate change and flooding coming summer 2023 to a waterfront park lot near you. Recent favorite acting roles include playing an anti-recycling villain, Garbage (PS Family NYC, dir: Annika Praeger), a lovingly delusional mother immigrating from Mombasa to Miami in 1982 (Secret Theater, dir: Kanika Asavari Vaish), another delusional lady who decides to climb a sacred mountain (Columbia University MFA, dir: Liz Peterson), and a delusional movement-based mother (Lime Arts Fringe Festival, dir: Laia Comas). Check out her website for more (you guessed it) parenthetical statements: www.sabinasethiunni.com

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