Rymn Wadhwa is an Engineer Turned Playwright at Toronto Fringe

About this episode

Rymn Wadhwa discusses her debut play Assembly Sϋggested and the creative process behind it.

About This Episode: What happens when an engineer decides to write a play? If you're Rymn Wadhwa, you end up with one of the most inventive premises at this year's Toronto Fringe Festival. Assembly Sϋggested follows two women building an IKEA chair (and maybe, just maybe, a relationship ) guided by an instruction manual that gets increasingly, wonderfully absurd. It's a debut play with a deceptively simple setup that promises real emotional depth. This is Rymn's first play, first Fringe, and first podcast interview, and it's a conversation full of warmth, honesty, and real excitement about what theatre can do. If you're heading to the Toronto Fringe this year, Assembly Sϋggested is one to put on your list. This episode explores: The ingenious premise of Assembly Sϋggested and how a friendship became the blueprint for a play about building and breaking things How Rymn's engineering mindset and chess background shape the way she structures drama — including charting emotional highs and lows in spreadsheets How such a personal play evolved into something with no villains, only two people with different needs Creating Original music for the play, and suiting it to the performer And…

People in this episode

Host: Stageworthy

Guest: Rymn Wadhwa

Topics covered

• playwriting
• theatre
• engineering
• relationships
• Toronto Fringe
• creative process

Keywords

• playwright
• IKEA chair
• emotional depth
• chess
• original music
• theatre
• Fringe Festival

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Assembly Sϋggested

Places: Toronto

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