Meg is a first-generation South Asian stand up comedian and writer who got her start in Chicago and is currently based in LA.
She is a humor writer for The New Yorker and Reductress and a headline contributor for The Onion. She is currently a writer’s assistant for a Riz Ahmed production at Amazon and writing a feature for Shyam Madiraju’s adaption. She is also currently writing a collection of autobiographical humor essays for The Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agency.
She was named Chicago Reader’s People to Know in 2016, selected as a StandUp NBC Semi-Finalist in 2017 and as a semi-finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival in 2016, and featured in the NBC Breakout Comedy Festival in 2019. She is currently touring her hour, “She’s So Prude”
She was a regular at Laugh Factory Chicago and Zanies. She co-produced The Big One, ranked as one of the best stand-up shows by The LA Times.
etc: She’s a political economy researcher for Harvard Kennedy School.
In her free time, she loves looking to her side.