Episode 2 - Acting w/ Alia Shawkat

An honest conversation about the Hollywood creative industry with
actress Alia Shawkat. We talk about how to self-represent as a
queer Arab woman in Hollywood, biracial ‘passing’ and Western
privilege and breaking through the role of the ‘ethnic best
friend’.   


Speaker bio:  Alia Shawkat is an Irish-Iraqi actress,
scriptwriter and artist working in Hollywood. She has appeared in
over 45 TV shows and movies, she is known for her TV roles as
Hannah Rayburn in State of Grace, Maeby Fünke in the Fox/Netflix
television sitcom Arrested Development and Dory Sief in the TBS
and HBO Max comedy series Search Party. Selected movies include
Whip It, Animals and The Runaway; Shawkat co-wrote and starred in
queer indie drama Duck Butter. She is also a painter and is
currently writing a pilot for a TV show about her life. 


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