She was awarded an MA in Playwriting with distinction from UCT in 2014. Gardini is the co-founder of Horses' Heads Productions. She has had two plays produced at the National Arts Festival, WinterSweet (2012) andScrape (2013), both of which won Standard Bank Ovation Awards. In 2013 she was awarded the DALRO New Coin Poetry prize and named one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans. She is a member of The Royal Court Theatre’s South African New Writing Programme and the playwriting collective PlayRiot. Her new play Similar To will debut at the 2015 National Arts Festival's Arena Programme. Her poetry has been published widely, most recently in The Common, Prufrock and uHlanga as well as the Umuzi anthology The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories. Gardini currently works as a Lecturer in CityVarsity’s Acting for Camera department.