Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal is a theatre actress in India, and owns a production company, Poor Box Productions.

Educated at the J.B. Petit High School in Mumbai, she continued her studies at St Xavier's College and obtained two BSc degrees in Microbiology-Chemistry and Geology-Chemistry.

Despite Mahabanoo starting her professional career in the theatre rather late, she has worked with renowned film and theatre personalities in India and the UK. She has produced/directed/acted in Shirley Valentine, Art, Once I Was Young...Now I'm Wonderful!, (W)hole in the Head, Two Hot to Handle, The Vagina Monologues, amongst others.

The Vagina Monologues, which she brought to India in 2003, has helped to raise lakhs of rupees for two shelters for battered and abused women situated in the slums of Mumbai.

Mahabanoo lives life on her own terms and believes that she has not been put on earth to win a popularity contest. She has two children, Dr. Kaizaad Kotwal (who is a professor of films and theatre at Ohio State University, USA) and Nairika Kotwal-Cornett who lives in Georgia, USA.