Sabrina Dhawan is an Indian screenwriter and producer, born inEngland and raised inDelhi, India.

Dhawan is a Professor and the area head of screenwriting at theTisch School of the Arts,New York University. She has been commissioned to write for many large companies includingDisney,HBO,ABC Family and20th Century Fox.^[1] She has taught at filmmaking labs all over the world.

Dhawan is most well known for her writing credits on various feature-length films, as well as some producing and directing work on her own independent short films. She works a great deal within Indian andBollywood cinema.Monsoon Wedding, a 2001 film directed byMira Nair, is one of her earliest and most well known works, launching her screenwriting career.

Dhawan has a brief acting cameo inMonsoon Wedding as a wedding guest.

Dhawan was born in England and raised in Delhi. Dhawan attended both theConvent of Jesus and Mary as well asDelhi Public School for her elementary education. She then went on toHindu College to obtain herBachelor of Arts and toLeicester University, U.K. for aMasters of Arts in Communications Research.^[2] Dhawan then moved toNew York City, where she graduated fromColumbia University's Graduate Film Program in 2001 with aMasters of Fine Arts in Film.^[3]

Her student short film,(Saanjh) As Night Falls, which she made during the last years of her MFA, has been successful since its release in 2000.

Graduating from Columbia in 2001, the same year as the release ofMonsoon Wedding, Dhawan's career was almost immediate. In fact, Dhawan wrote the first draft of the screenplay while she was still in school - it only took her about a week.^[4] FusingHindi,Punjabi, andEnglish, Dhawan wrote the multi-lingual script forMonsoon Wedding.^[5] The film was premiered in theMarché du Film section of the 2001Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for various awards, including aGolden Globe.

After their pairing onMonsoon Wedding, Dhawan andNair formed a brief partnership in which Dhawan worked as Nair's assistant at Columbia sometime in the early 2000s.^[6] She also wrote the segment "India" (directed by Nair) in11'09"01 September 11, a series of short films forCanal Plus in 2002.^[7]

Dhawan's short film(Saanjh) As Night Falls was awarded the Best of the Festival at thePalm Springs International Festival of Short Films. It also received the Audience Award at Angelus Awards; and was voted "Most Original Film," byNew Line Cinema at thePolo Ralph Lauren New Works Festival in 2000.^[3]

In 2009, Dhawan acted asco-producer for the first three episodes of a TV Series titledBollywood Hero.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, Dhawan co-wrote the filmRangoon, with Vishal Bharadwaj and Matthew Robbins.^{[citation needed]}

Dhawan worked with Mira Nair to create a stage adaptation ofMonsoon Wedding which ran at theBerkeley Repertory Theater in California in 2017.^[8]

In 2006, Dhawan married Steve Cohen, who wrote the screenplay forThe Bachelor (1999) starringChris O'Donnell andRenée Zellweger. Cohen died on 29 September 2012.^[9]

As of 2016^[update] Dhawan was living inNew York City with their son, Kabir.^[1]

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