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A self-described “ham” who grew up dancing, Haley Lu Richardson booked her first acting gig on the Disney channel in 2013. She went on to star in a series of independent hits

Please Don’t Destroy is a sketch comedy group — composed of Ben Marshall, Martin Herlihy, and John Higgins — that first formed in 2017. Together, they write and star in frequently viral

As a creative executive at Netflix on the Spectacle Original Series Content Team, Jason Pan sees it as his responsibility to support as many Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) storytellers as possible.

Jenna Ortega has been acting since she was a child: She got her start as a young Jane in the CW’s hit telenovela “Jane the Virgin.” Though she has since said those

Jesse Light grew up “obsessed” with reality TV and, at 22 years old, pitched her first original show to production shop Haymaker East. That concept never became a series, but Light impressed

Comedian Mekki Leeper dropped out of college to pursue a career in comedy–and the decision is paying off. He wrote for the 2017 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, has starred in Mindy Kaling’s

Agent Sabina Kashi is devoted to finding and promoting comedians with underrepresented points of view. She began her career in 2015 at Comedy Central and moved to CAA in 2016; her client

Celeste Yim is the first-ever out trans writer at “Saturday Night Live” and this past season, they became the show’s first AAPI writer to be promoted to Supervising Writer. At “SNL,” Yim

Director Emma Seligman first broke onto the scene with their debut feature–the queer, Jewish, indie comedy, “Shiva Baby,” starring Rachel Sennott–which earned them the 2022 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award. This summer

Tiffany K. Guillen is the co-founder of Creative X Entertainment, a marketing and production company. Since launching in 2021, the agency has worked with Netflix, Shondaland and Starbucks. The company’s growing revenue