Aarushi Agni (Actor)

Aarushi Agni (she/they, @aarushifire) is a queer South Asian writer, poet, comedian, musician, artist, educator, activist and person. Her writing and storytelling has been featured widely, notably in Apartment Therapy, Nerdist, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and Belladonna Comedy. Agni got her MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute, where she took a lot of neat pictures, and compiled an oral history archive of older Brooklyn residents, called As Told. She’s been part of New York Poetry Festival, New York Queer Comedy Festival, Asian Comedy Festival and performed at iconic venues like Joe’s Pub and Littlefield. She debuted her solo show Emoji: The Hieroglyphs of Our Time or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Send the Risky Text to a sold-out crowd at Projectorfest 2024. Now she’s taking that same show to New York Fringe in April 2025. She hosts a monthly love-and-sci-fi-themed improv comedy show, Shoulda Coulda Woulda at Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and has performed on the Boogiemanja sketch teams Wicked Triplet, Attainable Crush, and now Electric Panini — and you better believe she came up with all three of those baller names! She is the Lead Teacher for Octavia Project, a summer program for girls and non-binary youth that uses sci-fi as a lens to imagine new futures. Her band Tin Can Diamonds is streaming everywhere. You can find out more about her work at aarushiagni.com.