Ipsheeta Furtado (she/her) is a technology entrepreneur by day and, by night, she writes and performs theatrical art. She’s founded companies, consultancies, and adventure clubs. Her passion for theater started from a young age, memorizing musicals well before seeing them on stage and discovering basement shows in college. Ipsheeta weaves the supernatural into her writing where she highlights counter culture female characters, generational paradigms, and commentary on the technology economy. Ipsheeta serves on the Board of Directors for the Bay Area’s Shotgun Players, writes with PlaygroundSF’s Writers Pool, and is part of Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) Foundation and SF Writers Grotto Rooted & Written alumni. She co-founded The Network Effects Theater in 2023 to prevent passivity in the Bay Area. Ipsheeta holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from UC Berkeley.