Minoti Vaishnav

Growing up in Mumbai, India, Minoti spent her childhood watching American TV and penning supernatural murder mystery fiction. Her dark tastes alarmed her doctor dad and journalist mom, so they encouraged Minoti to channel her creative energy into something a little more socially acceptable - music. In pursuit of pop-stardom, Minoti left her family behind in India when she was only 19 and moved to Los Angeles on her own. Three indie albums and a viral music video later, Minoti realized she still preferred murder to music. So she dropped her mic to become an investigative documentary producer, a job where she adapted declassified FBI, CIA and MI-5 intelligence files into television shows, chased down forgotten leads in cold cases, and interviewed many colorful characters, including cryptid enthusiasts, paranormal investigators, astrologists, witches, UFO hunters, police detectives, and former FBI and CIA agents. She associate produced and co-wrote 6 episodes of History Channel's Hunting Hitler (2015), and development produced 17 unscripted shows including Contact (2019) and Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (2021) for Discovery Channel, Rise of Empires: Ottoman (2020) for Netflix, and Mission Declassified (2019) for Travel Channel. After getting into the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, Minoti made the jump to scripted television as a writer. She has worked on The Equalizer (2021) and True Lies (2023). She lives in Los Angeles.