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KAUSAR MOHAMMEDas Noor (Little Sis)Kausar Mohammed (she/her) is a Bengali-Pakistani writer, actress, and comedian born in San Jose, California. She is a writer/performer in the distinguished all-South Asian comedy troupe, The Get Brown, and in the 2021 CBS Diversity Showcase. Kausar plays series lead in Paul Feig's (“Bridesmaids”) dramedy, “East of La Brea”. She also has worked alongside Taraji P. Henson on the film “What Men Want” (Paramount), Issa Rae on the film “Little” (Universal), and has additional credits on shows such as “Silicon Valley” (HBO), “Black Lightning” (CW), and “Carol’s Second Act” (CBS). Kausar also voices series lead characters on both Spielberg’s Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous and the hit anime show, Great Pretender. This Fall 2021, you can see her starring on an upcoming CW show.
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VICO ORTIZas Luz (The Partner)Vico Ortiz (They/Him/She-Elle/El/Ella) is a Latine non-binary artivist born and raised in Puerto Rico. Their first breakthrough role in Hollywood was in the hit Amazon series, “Transparent” paving the way to more recognized television appearances in shows such as “The Fosters”, “Lucifer” and “Criminal Minds'' among many others. More recently, Vico has had guest starring roles in “American Horror Story: 1984”, the Starz award winning series “Vida” and the GLAAD nominated Freeform comedy “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay”. Vico also recently received a Queerties Award nomination for their series regular role in the award winning digital series “These Thems”. Next, they will star as a series regular in an upcoming Amazon Prime original set for release in 2021.
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MEERA ROHIT KUMBHANIas Soraya (Big Sis)Meera Rohit Kumbhani is a theater, film, and TV actor whose credits include Netflix’s Uncorked, Netflix's A Futile & Stupid Gesture, and series regular roles in FOX's “Weird Loners” and USA's “Donny!”. She can also be seen in indie film Dave Made a Maze, as well as Shameless, Life in Pieces, The Mindy Project, The Guest Book, This is Us, an ABC pilot called Charlie Foxtrot, and more. Her theater credits include numerous Off-Broadway and regional shows including the world premieres of Ayad Akhtar’s The Who & the What and Kate Attwell’s Testmatch. She also teaches and performs live with Wet the Hippo’s Idiot Workshop.
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PIA SHAHas Kiran (Middle Sis)Pia Shah wrote, starred in and produced the short film The Shower which has screened at festivals internationally including the Los Angeles Pacific Asian American Film Festival and will next be screened at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles in May 2021. She most recently started opposite Alfred Molina in Florian Zeller’s Tony award winning play THE FATHER. She played Jinky in the fully improvised indie feature film GRASS which is currently streaming on Netflix. Pia played Tanya in the Season 2 premiere episode “FOMO” of the Duplass brother HBO anthology series, ROOM 104 opposite Charlyne Yi. She has acted in television shows such as Mercy, Single Parents Grey’s Anatomy, Good Trouble, Dirty John and ITVS’ Futurestates and workshopped dozens of new plays at theaters around the country including the Geffen, Pacific Playwrights Festival and Ojai Playwrights Conference. She is currently writing a pilot based on her personal experiences as a new mother and a feature screenplay based on her immigrant parents and their American Experience.
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D'LO SRIJAERAJAHas David (Kiran's Husband)D’Lo Srijaerajah (he/they) is a queer/transgender Tamil-Sri Lankan-American actor/writer/comic. His work ranges solo theater and stand up, tv/film, plays, essays and poetry.His acting credits include: NBC’s CONNECTING, LOOKING, TRANSPARENT, SENSE 8, and MR.ROBOT, and web series EASTSIDERS, DYKE CENTRAL, including a leading role in a ColorCreative & Project Greenlight produced MINIMUM WAGE, and finally his very own web series PRIVATE DICK. He also is working on a scripted series based on his life with Sameer Gardezi’s Break the Room Media (BTR) through Paul Feig’s Powderkeg Media and worked with the Pop Culture Collab on his project called NIMZO.
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