Neha Singh

Literary works Neha Singh started writing for children in 2011 and her first book, The Wednesday Bazaar, was released in 2014. Since then she has written seven further books for children and young adults and been featured in an anthology. These include Bela misses her train (2017) for Karadi Tales, Moongphali (2017) for Rupa Publications, I need to pee (2018) She also writes poems, fiction and non-fiction in Hindi for children and young adults that feature regularly in the children's magazines 'Cycle', 'Pluto' and 'Chakmak'. Her poems and stories have been turned into posters, bookmarks and poetry cards for children.

Neha's books have been nominated for several Indian and international awards like Jarul Book Awards, Neev Literary Awards, Comic Con India Awards, Peekabook Awards and her book I need to pee won a commendation at the South Asia Book Awards 2019 in the USA. She has travelled to various literary festivals across India with her books, including the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (Mumbai), The Hindu Lit for Life (Chennai), Kolkata Literary Festival, Jaipur Literature Festival, Kitaabo children's literature festival (Jodhpur), Bookaroo children's literature festivals (Jaipur and Srinagar), Peekabook children's literary festival (Mumbai) and Neev literary festival (Bangalore).

Theatre Work Neha is also a theatre practitioner and acts, writes, directs and produces plays. She has her own theatre company called 'Rahi theatre' and has produced, written and directed two plays, Dohri Zindagi and Jhalkari, which have toured India and been staged 75 times. In collaboration with The Dharavi Dream Project, Neha Singh's play has been touring the country and giving these young hiphoppers from Dharavi a platform to tell their stories and showcase their talents to the world.

Neha adapted and directed "Woh" for the NCPA connections festival in 2025 and received rave reviews for the performance.

Films Neha has written and directed four short films. A handful of sky won a special mention at the 'Mumbai Dimensions' competition in the 10th MAMI film festival. Her second film, Paperplanes, was in the competition section at the International Film Festival of India (Goa, 2011). Her third film, My parents don't fit, was produced by Anat films. Her fourth film, Chitrangada 2020 was part of the theatre film theatre festival organised by theatre director producer Atul Kumar.

In 2019 she acted in the film Aani Maani, and was nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category at the 7th FOI Online Awards in 2022.

Her current projects involve two feature films that are in pre-production with Humaara Movies where she is involved as a screenplay writer. Her non-fiction podcast show Akeli awaara azaad with Culture Machine has been shortlisted by Spotify. She is also working as a writer director on two concepts for children's web shows with Mukesh Chhabra.