MFA: Playwriting, Columbia University; BFA: Dramatic Writing, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.

Rehana’s full-length plays have been produced/developed at: Asian American Theater Company (San Francisco), Stages Theater (Los Angeles), Studio Space @ Theater Row, HERE Arts Center, Rasik Arts (Toronto), and Asian American Arts Centre (Philadelphia). Her short plays have been presented at the Culture Project, EST, The Flea, Center Stage NY, The Tenement Museum, Richmond Shepard Theater, Artwallah (Los Angeles), CSV Center (2G), and Abrons Arts Center. She has been a Leopold Schepp scholar, a 2G Resident Artist, the recipient of an EST/Sloan Commission, LMCC artist grant, John Golden Award, the 2010 Lark/IAAC Playwright Residency, and a TCG Future Leaders mentorship with New Georges/Susan Bernfield.

Her short film, Modern Day Arranged Marriage has toured to over 40 festivals internationally and won the audience award at NBC's DiverseCity Short Cuts Festival. Her feature film, Hiding Divya, starring veteran Madhur Jaffrey and Pooja Kumar, was released theatrically in 2010 and is currently touring to schools.  Rehana is the co-director of the Ma-Yi Theater’s Writer’s Lab with her husband, Mike Lew.