BUSHRA BURNEY
STORYTELLER
Bushra Burney is a Pakistani-American writer, performer, and project manager who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and is now based in Los Angeles. With a lifelong love of movies and TV, Bushra became a writer to tell the kinds of stories she never saw on screen and writes across genres about characters seeking connection and belonging who aren’t defined by just their background.
Bushra’s plays with stories fueled by underrepresented character dynamics have been chosen for new works festivals and her drama feature Jameela at the Bat has placed in a few screenplay competitions, including as a finalist in the 1497 Features Lab, which was created to uplift South Asian voices. She also wrote and performed a comedic one-person show about the time an existential crisis led her to ask if the life she leads is worth the struggles her parents went through and is now working on a new one-person show about being an outlier still searching for purpose.
In Los Angeles, she has taken sketch writing and improv classes at The Pack Theater and United Citizens Brigade and acting classes at The Last Acting Studio. Bushra is always on the quest for a great cup of coffee and also makes an espresso-based drink that she humbly calls “The Bushra.”
