Bilal Baig

Bilal Baig is a Canadian writer and actor, most noted for their play Acha Bacha and television series Sort Of.[1] Acha Bacha, which centers on a non-binary[2] Pakistani-Canadian person struggling to reconcile their gender with their Muslim upbringing, was staged in a joint production by Theatre Passe Muraille and Buddies in Bad Times in 2018.[3]

Bilal Baig
Born
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Baig is the co-creator, co-writer, and star of Sort Of, a CBC Television comedy series centering on a genderfluid character.[4] Baig is the first queer South Asian Muslim actor to lead a Canadian primetime television series.[5] The series premiered on CBC in 2021.[5]

Theatre credits
Year Title Role Theatre Director(s) Ref.
2018 Acha Bacha Playwright Theatre Passe Muraille Brendan Healy
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Filmography

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2021 Sort Of Sabi Mehboob Lead/Creator

References
  1. J. Kelly Nestruck, "Review: With Acha Bacha, there’s no time like the present". The Globe and Mail, February 7, 2018.
  2. Patel, Zoya. "Sort Of: big-hearted Canadian show puts diverse, non-binary characters front and centre". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  3. Jose Teodoro, "Acha Bacha explores queer South Asian-Canadian life with humour and heart". Now, February 8, 2018.
  4. "Entertainment news: New CBC comedy will star genderqueer playwright Bilal Baig as a gender-fluid millennial". Toronto Star, October 15, 2020.
  5. "Nonbinary millennial is front and center in HBO Max dramedy 'Sort Of'". NBC News. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  6. Taylor, Christopher. "Baig's Acha Bacha Shows That Sometimes Real Stories Don't Have Happy Endings." The Theatre Times, June 30, 2018.


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