Nayantara Nayar is a playwright, researcher, and storyteller from Chennai, India. Her research interests include memory, urban spaces, and ecological crises. She is a CHASE funded PhD researcher at University of East Anglia where she studies water crisis and the potential of theatre practices to foster different water-related imaginaries.

Her body of work as a playwright includes, the visual art + performance project Limits of Change (Co-Creator, Chennai Photo Biennale, 2024-25); Lost Waters (Green Theatre Revolution, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2024); Curfew (Rage Theatre and Lyric Theatre Belfast, 2022-23); The Sometimes River (Parag, 2023); Chicken Run (Co-Creator, Chennai Photo Biennale, 2021-22); and The Body (New Writing Festival, Rage Theatre and Enacte Theatre).