Gita Reddy
Gita Reddy was born to a Filipina nurse and an Indian engineer in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was the kind of kid who would happily tell you all that, including how to spell everything correctly, and really was just very, very excited about anything and everything, including her bowl haircut.
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area means she has a great fondness for calm nature walks, the entrepreneurial spirit, Golden Gate Bridge and every location in the movie Vertigo.
Her theatrical debut was as the 72 year-old housekeeper in her high school production of The Matchmaker at age 14. It was her first taste of being the comic relief, and also of the kind of age range that would be expected in her career. She has since expanded her repertoire to include wee lads, power-hungry mavens, flighty ladies, duplicitous wizards, and many more in-between. And of course, with decades of experience, her tried and true grannies, both the curmudgeons and the ones who will sneak you a cookie.
She’s loved recurring on such shows as Orange Is the New Black, The Mindy Project, Marvel’s Iron Fist, and Adam Ruins Everything. Her first film role was as a photograph that Julia Roberts chanted to in Eat Pray Love. She gets much mileage with her friends’ kids for having voiced Nangi, the naked (shhh!) elephant teaching yoga in Disney’s Oscar-winning Zootopia.
As a writer/performer, her solo-ish work includes Marta Santos Live! and Secret M.U.T.A.N.T. (published in "Tokens: The NYC Asian American Experience on Stage”), which led to her being awarded a Performance/Multi-Disciplinary Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts.
She has studied improv at iO West, Magnet and UCB, and did a two-year Artistic/Management Fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop.
She is currently a member of the Chalk Theatre Playwrights Group, and is obsessed with how territorial the hummingbirds get in her tiny garden.
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