actor/director/singer

Anvita Gattani is an actor/director/singer who studied at NYU Tisch. She was the Oscar Academy’s Student Speaker in 2022, featured in HBO’s My So-Called High School Rank, has played Paulina in The Winter’s Tale and directed the Indian Dystopian Film Alone, Alone, Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea which premiered at Tasveer, an Oscar-qualifying festival. In Hindi, Anvita means to bridge the gap and it is her mission to utilize storytelling to bridge the gaps between different groups of people.

CURRENTLY

• I'm Assistant Directing a new musical called Open, Stay in New York which will debut this September.  https://playbill.com/article/new-musical-open-stay-will-receive-private-industry-pop-up 

• AAAWWS, a film I directed, and Aloo Poori, a film I starred in are playing at Chicago South Asian Film Festival this September.

• I'm playing Kelly and Others in the Off-Broadway Office Musical based on the famous show.

• I performed in an Equity reading of the play A Muslim in the Midst at Bucks County Playhouse.

• Roommates in Hell a film I am starring in, shooting in Los Angeles, is in pre-production.

RECENTLY

• I acted in a film called Jump in New York.

• Alone, Alone, Alone, on a Wide, Wide Sea, a film I directed premiered at Tasveer Film Festival, the world's only Oscar Qualifying South-Asian Film Festival in 

October.

• Pivot, a film I co-wrote premiered at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival and DC South Asian Film Festival.

• All At Once a musical I starred in closed its run at The Tank in New York City.