KUNAL NAYYAR (“THE BIG BANG THEORY”) SET TO HOST CBS’s FIFTH ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL COMEDY SHOWCASE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27
LOS ANGELES, JAN. 25 – CBS Television in association with AFTRA, American Indians in Film & Television, East West Players, Nosotros, The Robey Theatre Company and SAG will host the fifth annual Multicultural Comedy Showcase for industry executives on Wednesday, Jan. 27 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood with Kunal Nayyar (THE BIG BANG THEORY) serving as master of ceremonies. The event will feature 15 actors selected from a pool of 4000 who applied and 1500 who auditioned. The Showcase will be directed by Rick Najera and is a part of CBS’s Diversity Initiative. Past participants in CBS Showcases include Nasim Padrad (“Saturday Night Live”) and Wyatt Cenac (“The Daily Show”), among countless others.
Nayyar’s theater acting credits include “Huck and Holden” at the Dahlia Theater in Los Angeles, for which he was awarded best male lead in a play on the West Coast by the Garland Awards, and “Love’s Labour’s Lost” at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.