Aarushi Agni (Actor)

Aarushi Agni (she/they, @aarushifire) is a queer South Asian writer, poet, comedian, musician, artist, educator and person. Her work has appeared in Bitch Media, Nerdist, Apartment Therapy and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Aarushi performs stand-up, sketch, storytelling and improv regularly around the city and world. She has been featured at New York Queer Comedy Festival, Asian Comedy Festival, Seattle Sketchfest and others. She is currently on the Boogiemanja sketch team, Attainable Crush and previously was on Wicked Triplet.  Her improv team Shoulda Coulda Woulda runs simulations to fix people's love lives. Aarushi got her MFA in Writing & Activism at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is the Lead Teacher for The Octavia Project, a summer program for girls and non-binary youth that uses sci-fi as a lens to imagine new futures. Aarushi is also an accomplished singer-songwriter; her band Tin Can Diamonds is streaming everywhere.