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Biography

 Jhansi is a musical theatre performer, composer, and music comedian in India. Jhansi did her BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre Performance from Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.

Then back after college, realising that in order to work in musicals in India, she needs to start writing them, she began learning everything she could via online resources and books.

Since then she has been  trying to create the field of Music storytelling and comedy in India, doing a variety of shows and festivals through platforms such as Tape a Tale and Kommune. She was a contestant on the TLC and Netflix show Queens of Comedy, where she competed as a music comedian.

She played Iago in Disney India’s production of the musical Aladdin. Her musical Don’t Eat my Face Pizza, which she wrote, composed, and directed was produced twice in Mumbai, and her new musical Terrified of Twenty-Five premiered in May 2020, and is set to do more shows over the country this year.

Jhansi has also been working in collaboration with Freestyle Love Supreme, as the Indian Ambassador. Over the years, a lot of political, social, and women’s causes have been picked and depicted by her as music videos online, on various platforms.

Jhansi has been accepted to the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre workshop as a lyricist, and she will begin the adventure in NYC in October 2022.