Akaash Singh
Acting
Biography
Akaash Singh is a nationally touring stand up comedian, podcaster, and actor. After moving to NYC and honing his comedy craft, his career started to take off with many shows including MTV's Guy Code and Wild'n Out, Netflix's Brown Nation, and HBO's The Leftovers. After finding success in TV, he pivoted his focus more on growing the hugely successful podcast Flagrant 2, co-created with fellow comedian and good friend, Andrew Schulz, along with touring and his stand up career. Akaash ambitiously plans to release three stand up specials within the next year.
Born: May 4, 1984
Place of Birth: Texas
Known For
The Leftovers
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
Akaash Singh: GASLIT
Akaash Singh comedy special GASLIT
Red Oaks
A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins. David Myers, an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985, is both reeling from his father's heart attack and conflicted about what major to declare in the fall. While there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members including an alluring art student named Skye and her corporate raider father Getty.
#1 Happy Family USA
An exploration of the experiences of a Muslim-American family that must learn how to code-switch as they navigate the early 2000s: a time of fear, war, and the rapid expansion of the boy-band industrial complex.
Akaash Singh: Bring Back Apu
Because somewhere along the line, South Asians started trying to cash in on victimhood currency. Complaining about cartoon characters, people mispronouncing our names, and God knows what else. But we were raised better than that. Our parents, grandparents, uncles and aunties taught us dominate everything we do, just like they did when they made it here. And it is our privilege to carry that tradition forward. So it's time to end all the victim shit and taking our identity back.
Difficult People
Life is really tough for Julie Kessler and Billy Epstein, two thirty-something aspiring comics living and working in New York City. While their friends and acquaintances move on to find success and love, they continue to struggle with careers and relationships, getting more bitter by the day.
Brown Nation
Hasmukh operates a small IT Consulting company "Shree Ganesh Computers Limited Inc" in Queens, NY. Staffed by a disinterested and lazy cast of characters, his business flounders. His home life is not much better. His wife Dimple, a frustrated and jobless artist, complains constantly about not having enough time to explore her creativity because of the demands of taking care of her dog, Bobby. Hasmukh tries desperately to balance his work and family, but neither seem to have his best interest at heart.
How to Follow Strangers
There is a true story of a woman who died in her apartment and it took people a year to find her body decomposing in a crisp Chanel suit. A young man becomes obsessed with this urban tragedy and disappears, wondering if anyone will notice. A young woman who shares his commuting schedule DOES notice. And when he resurfaces, she decides to follow him setting of a chain of events that bind them together...
Hellaware
Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows
Mike Vecchione: Worst Kind of Thoughtful
The Worst Kind of Thoughtful is the first comedy special of its kind. Based on the 2018 comedy album by Mike Vecchione, it stars actors, artists, friends, fans, and many of your favorite comedians. It's the first User Generated Comedy Special.
Filmography
as Dev (voice)
as Performer 27
as Self
as Mookie
as Dog Owner
as Delivery Guy
as Dry Cleaner Employee
as Ian
as Noah
as Andy Bishop