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AASIF MANDVI SHARES HIS FAVORITE ACTING ROLES _SAKINA’S_ _RESTAURANT_: “In this one-man show, I play six male and female characters who inhabit an Indian restaurant on the Lower East Side of

Manhattan. The show premiered in 1998 in New York City and was the first play about the South Asian immigrant experience to be produced on or off-Broadway. It received two Obie Awards and

in 1999 returned for a 20th anniversary revival in New York City. It’s now available on Audible.” _DISGRACED_: “In 2012, I performed the lead role of Amir Kapoor, a Pakistani American

lawyer, in this play held at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Playwright Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for _Disgraced_, and I consider it to be one of the best

written and most provocative roles for a South Asian actor on the American stage.” _A_ _SERIES_ _OF_ _UNFORTUNATE_ _EVENTS_: “In this Netflix show, which ran from 2017 to 2019, I starred as

Uncle Monty. I chewed up the scenery, wore a fancy giant mustache, spoke with a posh English accent and handled a python. Nuff said.” _EVIL_: “Out of all my television work, playing the role

of Ben on _Evil_ allowed me to really grow with a character over time. The writing on the show is so good, and Ben gets to travel a journey from certainty to uncertainty and then back

again, which has been a lot of fun. Portraying Ben is also a departure from the kind of highly cerebral or purely comic relief roles we often see brown men playing on television.”