Uma Nada-Rajah is a playwright and nurse based in Kirknewton, Scotland.

She was a member of the Young Writers' Program at the Traverse Theatre and a recipient of a New Playwrights' Award from Playwrights' Studio Scotland. Her most recent play Toy Plastic Chicken was a part of the 2019 Play, Pie & a Pint Season at the Òran Mór and Traverse Theatre.

She is currently the Starter Female Political Comedy Writer in Residence with the National Theatre of Scotland.