A half-hour crime dramedy about a girl who stumbles into a black market after inheriting an NYC halal cart from her estranged father, and uses it to prove his innocence. Currently in post-production, heading for the 2027 festival circuit. Check out our Instagram: @alisworldfamoushalalcart
10K NYU Advanced TV grant · #1 on Seed&Spark · ~90K Instagram views
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Leading digital marketing strategy for an upcoming feature film.
Read moreSpent the summer writing script coverage and drafting pitch decks. Pitched an original TV series to Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor.
Read moreRead and delivered industry-standard coverage on feature screenplays under financial consideration for founder Thiago Torres, weighing story, craft, and commercial potential to guide investment decisions.
Read moreTrained in strategies to promote inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity & accessibility (IDBEA), and organized panels, workshops & events on a £3,000 budget while studying in London.
£3,000 event budget · London, England
Read moreWrote and directed two episodes of a dramedy web series following a collegiate Bollywood dance team’s journey to success. Story-edited season one.
$9K budget · 70-person production day · 2 episodes directed
Read moreCo-founder of a Gen-Z social app backed by GV and BoxGroup. Acquired by Snap Inc.
$1.25M seed · 46K downloads in 6 weeks · #34 Apple social
Read morePortrayed Shifter, a shape-shifting hero, in an RPG motion-capture video game about fighting spirits in the Middle East.
Read morePortrayed Baz, an arrogant punk, on an episode of Tina Fey’s sitcom, starring Ted Danson.
Read moreActing credits, writing samples, and the founder story all live on the Work page.
Explore my workAbout
I’m a South Asian Ismaili Muslim screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur with a passion for marketing, technology, and dark comedy.
Translation: I’m superrr Californian. At least in the cultural melting-pot sense.
Dad from East Africa, mom once a refugee in Italy, and both sisters Canadian-born. It’s in my DNA to embrace anything and everything new. That can look like many things, whether it's...
Taking these risks motivates my screenwriting. I’m drawn to age-old cultural rifts, generational divides, and adults who age into children (perks of having a big tight-knit family).
Oh & since we’re still here, I also love boxing, Japanese menswear, indie music, advocating for equal rights, traveling, + I make a mean British trifle.
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Selected work
A decade on screen across film, network television, and streaming. Watch me make you laugh, cry, or scream and explore my work below:
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Reel
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as Karthik
Supportingas Neil
Supportingas Self
Supportingas Edward
Leadas Sam
LeadTelevision
as Scott Hartle
Co-Staras Baz
Co-Staras Man on the Beach
Co-Staras Stanford Volunteer #1
Co-Staras Gabe
Co-Staras Mason
Recurring Guestas Siddharth
Guest Staras Stanley
Recurringas Monti / Ben
RecurringVoiceover & Theater
as Shifter
LeadStage
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SupportingMusical
SupportingPlay
SupportingTraining & Special Skills
Trained at Upright Citizens Brigade (improv) and Berg Studios with Gregory Berg, plus on-camera coaching with Lisa Picotte and Trisha Simmons. Dialects in Indian, British & Southern accents; trained in hip-hop & ballet, singing & rapping, motion capture, and cry-on-cue. Athletic in soccer, basketball, tennis, swimming, biking, fencing, boxing, and Cross-Fit.
I write drama that’s funny and comedy that’s sad. You might uncomfortably laugh, but just trust the process; I got you! Generally inclined towards BIPOC and LGBTQ+ stories. Explore my work below:
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Internships & Programs
Wrote script coverage and drafted pitch decks. Pitched an original series to Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor.
DevelopmentAssessed feature scripts for financing and packaging potential, for founder Thiago Torres.
CoverageStudied television writing in London through NYU’s study-abroad program, working with Yolanda Mercy.
WritingRead and evaluated incoming submissions, writing coverage for the literary team.
CoverageStudied dramatic feature writing under Peter Gamble and sitcom writing under Jim Staahl.
WritingSelected work
Created, wrote & ran · NYU Advanced TV
A half-hour crime dramedy about a girl who stumbles into a black market after inheriting an NYC halal cart from her estranged father, and uses it to prove his innocence. Selected as one of two pilots for NYU’s Advanced TV program, its highest-funded undergraduate production. Now in post-production, heading for the 2027 festival circuit. Check out our Instagram: @alisworldfamoushalalcart
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Staff writer & story editor · 2 episodes directed
A college student has to build a Bollywood dance team to keep her athletic scholarship. I wrote and directed two episodes, one a 70-person production and another a fully choreographed dance sequence, then was promoted to story editor to map the first-season room.
Behind the Scenes
Leading digital marketing strategy for an upcoming feature film.
MarketingI build social products for Gen-Z. Branding, marketing, and product are my lane. Check it out:
Acquired by Snap Inc. · 2022
The yearbook you sign through Snapchat. I co-founded HAGS with my sister Suraya and James Dale during the 2020 lockdown: a viral digital yearbook that grew into a Club-Penguin-style virtual campus. I owned brand, product & go-to-market, recruited 200+ campus ambassadors, and we became the first third-party app to ship full-body Bitmoji through a formal Snap partnership, before Snap acquired us. Backed by Google Ventures and BoxGroup.
Created & hosted · Spotify, Apple, iTunes
A podcast I founded to take on diversity, misrepresentation, and gender inequality in the entertainment industry. I hosted conversations with guests including actor Rizwan Manji, screenwriter and actress Madison De La Garza, and SAG-AFTRA Diversity Director Ellen Huang. Through sponsorships, we donated 100% of proceeds to charities tackling the issues we discussed.
Cast Aside · Episodes
The Canadian American actor known for The Magicians, Mr. Robot, and Ray on Schitt’s Creek, on typecasting, theater, and the TV series he co-created.
Dancer and actress from NBC’s World of Dance, on competing with the group Girl Cool, how Crazy Rich Asians shaped her career, and her honest take on Dance Moms.
Screenwriter and actress, Juanita Solis on Desperate Housewives, on 13 Reasons Why, social media, and growing up in the spotlight with her sisters Dallas and Demi Lovato.
A seventeen-year-old filmmaker who wrote, directed, produced, and edited a feature while still in high school, on gender equality and life as a young woman on set.
Behind the Scenes
Leading digital marketing strategy for an upcoming feature film.
Marketing