Shilpi lost her mother at a tender age of 8. As a single child, she has fought at every stage of life. Shilpi Marwaha was born and brought up in Delhi and studied for her Masters in Commerce from Kamla Nehru College, University of Delhi. She was active in campus theatre. She did many street and stage plays in DU.
Marwaha started her career as a theatre actor in Delhi with Asmita Theatre Group.She got trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur. She participated in his theatre workshop in college. Marwaha has worked with Asmita Theatre group for 12 years, and was a core member, coordinating theatre workshops and directing workshop plays.
Her major plays are Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s A Woman Alone, Bertolt Brecht's Ramkali (The Good Person of Szechwan), Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions and 30 days in September, Girish Karnad's Rakt Kalyan, Swadesh Deepak's Court Martial, Rajesh Kumar's Ambedkar aur Gandhi, Mohan Rakesh's Lehro ke Rajhans, Ashok Lal's Ek Mamooli aadmi, Unsuni (based on Harsh Mandar's book & scripted by Mallika Sarabhai), Dario Fo's adaptation 'Operation Three Star' based on Accidental death of an anarchist, Govind Purushottam Deshpande's Raastey, Dario Fo's Can't Pay won't Pay (Hindi adaptatipn by Amitabh Srivastava) and Mahesh Bhatt's The Last Salute, written by Rajesh Kumar. Shilpi has also worked with RJ Raunac on dramatic reading of Asghar Wajahat’s stories.
Apart from acting, she has penned down four stories namely, “Apratyaksh” a love story of an eunuch, “Kaash” intercaste love saga, “Purity” on the slut shaming tendencies of society and “Rangmanch” elucidating the struggles involved in the life of an aspiring actor trying to fulfill his dream. All these stories have been staged for audience in Delhi.
Shilpi was also a part of the national award winning documentary film 'Daughters of Mother India'.[12]
She participated in theatre workshops in various colleges in Delhi and outside including Delhi University, IIT and IIM and has judged numbers of events on stage and street plays in different colleges & universities across the nation.[13]
Shilpi Marwaha performed thousands of street plays in Delhi NCR and other states, based on social issues—like corruption, atrocities on women, Violence, gender issues, domestic worker, street vendor, Garibi, drugs, road rage, domestic violence, inter-faith, child labour, budget, female foeticide, child education etc. Dastak – written and conceptualized by Shilpi herself, is a biggest hit and has been performed over thousand shows across India. Marwaha is also active in Social Awareness movement. She actively participated in women's safety movement to raise voice for domestic workers and in anti corruption movement etc.[14][15]
In the year 2016 Shilpi faced sexual harrassment at workplace from the director of the theatre group where she worked relentlessly for 12 years. At the height of her career, she walked out from the group and was joined by other senior actors who decided to leave the group.
Shilpi started Sukhmanch Theatre in March 2017 in the memory of her late mother whose name "Sukhvarsha" inspired the name of the group and her endeavour to promote theatrical arts. She is currently working as creative head and director of the group.[16]
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