Aseem Batra is an American television director, producer and actress.
Biography
Born in
Ohio
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to Indian parents, she moved to rural
Georgia
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at the age of three and
Orange County, California
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at twelve. She was a communications and theater
double major
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at the
University of California, San Diego
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before going to graduate school for communications management at the
University of Southern California
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, accreditation = WSCUC
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.
Batra was a producer and writer on
''Scrubs'', where she also played the character Josephine. In 2009, she began writing and producing on ''
The Cleveland Show
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''.
Mike Henry, commenting on being a white man voicing the African American
Cleveland Brown, noted how the character's stereotypical
redneck
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neighbors were voiced by black actor
Kevin Michael Richardson
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and Batra. As a producer, Batra was part of the nomination of the episode "
Murray Christmas
The second season of '' The Cleveland Show'' aired from September 26, 2010, to May 15, 2011. Fox ordered a second production series of 22 episodes (2APSxx) in October 2009.
Cast
This season included the return of Kanye West for an additional epi ...
" for
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program
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In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which ...
at the
63rd Primetime Emmy Awards
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.
In February 2015, it was announced that Batra would write a "politically incorrect" sitcom pilot for
NBC
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alongside the
Russo brothers
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, with whom she had previously worked on ''
Animal Practice
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'' and an unfinished semi-autobiographical comedy. Three years later, the same network picked up an untitled project written by Batra and executive produced alongside
Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler (; born September 16, 1971) is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, Poehler co-founded the improvisational-comedy trou ...
; it aired from September as ''
I Feel Bad
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''.
References
External links
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Living people
American people of Indian descent
University of Southern California alumni
American television writers
American television producers
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)