Broadway BUZZ

Maulik Pancholy has been seen as Jonathan on the Emmy^®, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award-winning NBC comedy 30 Rock, Sanjay on Showtime’s award-winning series Weeds, and Neal on the NBC comedy Whitney. He has recurred and guest starred on numerous other television shows including The Good Fight, Dynasty, Elementary, Star Trek: Discovery, The Good Wife, Web Therapy, and The Comeback. He was last seen on Broadway in It’s Only A Play, and recently played Off-Broadway in the New Group’s production of Good for Otto. Other theater credits include the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom (The Culture Project) and Aunt Dan & Lemon (The New Group), and the New York productions of The Awake (59E59 Theaters), India Awaiting (Samuel Beckett Theater) and The Happy Sad (SPF at The Public). Regional credits include Studio Theatre, Shakespeare Theater Company, Yale Rep, Shakespeare Festival Los Angeles, The Goodman, and the Mark Taper Forum. On the big screen, Pancholy has appeared in films such as 27 Dresses, Friends with Money and Hitch as well as several independent features. He is the voice of the title character of Sanjay on Nickelodeon’s hit animated series Sanjay & Craig and the voice of Baljeet on Disney’s Emmy^® award-winning Phineas & Ferb. Pancholy has shared the Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Ensemble four times – three times with the cast of 30 Rock (winning in 2009) and once with the cast of Weeds. He served on President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and he is the co-founder of the anti-bullying organization acttochange.org. His debut novel The Best at It comes out October 8, 2019 from Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins.