ABOUT ME!
Isha Pati is a writer, comedian, and musician from the Bay Area, currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch.
She’s spent the last 4 years in Chicago performing and producing at venues including Annoyance, iO, and Lincoln Lodge— and earning her BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she created BitRake Humor. TTS credits include Lysistrata (asst. director), MessFest Anchor Shows Help! Let Me Out RN! (cast) and Everything You’re About To See Is Normal And Okay (cast), as well as Asian Americans 4 U (co-producer/cast), the last two of which were picked up for extended residencies at Annoyance. Isha also served as Head Script Supervisor for MessFest Comedy Festival 2025.
In her free time, Isha enjoys running, hiking, journaling pensively by large bodies of water, and the NYT crossword.
Special skills: 5:14 average Monday crossword time.
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“I don’t think people understand the gravity of this. Fully believe [she] could solve the crossword on acid faster than I could sober.”
– my friend Sarah, Twitter, 2022
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