Named after the Zoroastrian “God of Light,” MITHRA B. ALAVI is a queer Iranian-American Muslim comedy writer raised in foothills of Appalachia, and a graduate of the MFA Film program at Florida State University. In 2025 her script ARRANGED was featured on The Women’s List. In 2024 she was selected for the Sundance Institute Building Bridges Fellowship and named was a Series Creator to Watch by The Gotham at their inaugural TV Awards ceremony. In January 2022 she participated in the Disney General Entertainment Writing Program and was hired as a staff writer for Season 2 of Freeform’s SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE where she co-wrote episode 206 “Keeping it Professional.” She was also selected for the Islamic Scholarship Fund’s inaugural Writers’ Lab, created with the support of Extracurricular and The Black List. Mithra has also written and directed short films including “Three’s a Crowd,” which was a Student Emmy Award winner.  

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