2022 TV Writer Access Project Honoree
Skander Halim
DRAMA/BIPOC
Skander has been both the funny guy in the drama room and the dark guy (often literally) in the comedy room. Drama credits include the cult Sundance feature Pretty Persuasion, a pilot for 20th Television, and Hallmark’s Good Witch. Comedy credits include CBS’ The Unicorn and Murphy Brown revival, and the all-South Asian sketch team The Get Brown. His pilot Model Minority made the final round in the comedy category of this program.
As a Canadian/American dual citizen, small town-to-big city transplant, Jewish convert, and son of a Muslim Bangladeshi father and Catholic Dutch mother, Skander has had exposure to a wide variety of cultures that traditionally dislike each other. This makes his writing complex and layered, or something like that.
Nathan X
An ex-con who converted to Islam in prison is recruited as a special advisor by the police department of a heavily Muslim-populated town in Michigan.
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