Sonal Moore (Playright)
Sonal is a lawyer by day, and a writer by night and she knows which she prefers. Sonal has been writing short plays since 2004 and has since that time had her short plays produced around the world, in festivals around Australia, in the USA, India, Dubai, and France.
Sonal’s exploration of what it means to grow up in Australia as a girl of Indian heritage started with her short play “White Weddings” and continued with “Eye of the Storm” which was presented by Nautanki in 2020. In 2023, Sonal’s one-act play “Mangalsutra” looked at marriage across three generations of women of Gujarati heritage.
Sonal’s parents are from Gujarat, India. Her father was sent to Australia in 1959 for business and after 10 years, her parents decided to stay. Sonal was born in Melbourne and married to a white Australian who must have been Indian in a past life! “Ten Years to Home” (https://nautanki.org.au/ten-years-to-home/) which premiered in 2019 produced by Nautanki Theatre in Parramatta, is an exploration of Sonal’s parents’ story set against the political climate of Australia and India in the 1960s and the richness of the two cultures in which her family now lives.
