Smriti Keshari

Smriti Keshari is a New Jersey native and Indian-American director and artist known for her bold and groundbreaking contributions to storytelling. Her diverse portfolio spans traditional filmmaking, immersive installations, and live performances, where she fearlessly explores themes like nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, and immortality. Her acclaimed multi-media installation, the bomb, was heralded by Newsweek as “a stunning avant-garde approach to a plea for nuclear disarmament.” She is an artist-in-residence with the National Theatre in London, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and Pioneer Works in New York. Her films have premiered at Berlin Film Festival, Tribeca, and on Netflix and Amazon. Keshari’s works have received support from the MacArthur Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, and Ford Foundation. She was honored as a TED Prize finalist and recognized as a 2016 Foreign Policy Global Creative Thinker. She lives between Barcelona and Vermont. Ready, Rudy? marks a return to her New Jersey roots.