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Geetika is a two-time winner of the WGA Writers Access Project, the only writer ever to win in both Comedy and Drama. She is the founder of the Generation Now Writers Group, a group that seeks to promote underrepresented film & TV writers in YA / coming of age stories.
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- Geetika Lizardi
Jun 15, 2021 · Geetika Lizardi Known for: Bridgerton, Mira Royal Detective, Outsourced And in between, she spent a lot of her time translating American culture for Indians and Indian culture for Americans.
View Geetika Lizardi’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Geetika left a successful MBA career at Microsoft to pursue her passion for…
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Nov 27, 2023 · Geetika Lizardi, whose writing credits include “Bridgerton,” “Mira, Royal Detective” and “Outsourced,” is attached to write and will also serve as showrunner. The project comes out of the...
- The Indian Roots
- Exploring The Writer in Her
- Creating The Sharma Family
- Gen Now
Geetika and her family emigrated from Chandigarh to the USA when she was two-and-a-half years old. She continued to visit India during her summer breaks and later on, spent time translating American culture for Indians and vice versa.
The scriptwriter majored in English at Stanford and worked briefly at Microsoft after acquiring an MBA. She soon realised that it wasn’t her true passion and started pursuing scriptwriting professionally. Geetika related to the characters of Jane Austen’s world and while talking about it to a leading daily, she said, “Their (protagonists’) identity...
Geetika shared on LinkedIn recently that she wanted to represent the Indian culture on the show as authentically as possible. She wrote, “How we portrayed India and Indian culture was of utmost importance to me and the whole writing team, so it’s been absolutely thrilling to see the South Asian community embracing the show.” She added that now the ...
Geetika is very particular about the representation of different cultures, communities and colours in the cinematic world. That is why, she launched Gen Now, a group for underrepresented film and TV writers in the YA space. It includes writers of colour, from LGBTQ+ communities and with disabilities. Geetika Lizardi is changing the face of scriptwr...
One of the forces behind Bridgerton Season 2 is Geetika Lizardi, the writer who brought the Sharma family to life. Netflix. By Mita Mallick. The long-awaited return of the Shondaland hit period...
IMDB. Biography. I write character-driven comedy and dramedy with heart. 2X winner of the WGA Writer's Access Project (in comedy and drama). Staffed on NBC and Disney shows. South Asian married to LatinX. 17 moves & 3 kids later, I have a ton of material to draw from! I especially love bidmodal shows with adult and teen storylines. Guild Member.
