---
name: "Madhuri Shekar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/madhuri-shekar"
fi1m_id: "madhuri-shekar"
imdb_id: "nm7945190"
tmdb_id: 2812365
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "26 December 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T21:51:38.030067+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Madhuri Shekar

## Identity

Madhuri Shekar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/madhuri-shekar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** madhuri-shekar
- **IMDb ID:** nm7945190
- **TMDB ID:** 2812365
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7945190/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2812365

Writer. Born 26 December 1986 in Santa Clara, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 26 December 1986, Santa Clara, California, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7945190/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2812365

## Coming up

- *Unaccustomed Earth* (2026-12-17), Executive Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*3 Body Problem*](https://film.one/tv/3-body-problem.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Madhuri Shekar is an American playwright and screenwriter. She holds an MFA in dramatic writing from the University of Southern California and graduated from the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. She also earned a dual master’s degree in global media and communications from the London School of Economics and USC.

Her screen credits include writing the 2020 Amazon Prime film *Evil Eye*, adapted from her own Audible audio drama that won a 2020 Audie Award. She served as a staff writer on the HBO series *The Nevers* (2021) and as a writer and story editor on the Netflix series *3 Body Problem* (2024). Her play *A Nice Indian Boy* was adapted into a 2024 film. She has received the Lanford Wilson Playwriting Award and the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and her plays have been produced across the United States and internationally.

*Sources: imdb.com, three-body-problem.fandom.com, primarystages.org, dramatistsguild.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *3 Body Problem* (2024), Fi1m 65, Story Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/3-body-problem.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Unaccustomed Earth* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *A Nice Indian Boy* (2025), Executive Producer
- *3 Body Problem* (2024), series, Story Editor, Writer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/3-body-problem.md)
- *The Nevers* (2021), series, Writer
- *Evil Eye* (2020), Writer
- *Sister Act 3*, Screenplay

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