LIPICA SHAH

As an advocate for inclusion, I am Co-Founder of 1497, a non-profit initiative to support and uplift talent of South Asian descent in the American film and television industry (our name signifies the year before Western colonization began in the area now known collectively as South Asia). In 2023 we became the first South Asian partner of the Sundance Film Festival and hosted the first South Asian Lodge during the festival's opening weekend in Park City, Utah! I'm also on the Steering Committee of AAPAC (The Asian American Performers Action Coalition), with whom I received Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre in 2022. I'm proud to be a National Volunteer Partner for Girl Scouts of the USA and #UnionStrong member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. In my spare time, I love traveling, cooking (especially the eating part), doing crossword puzzles in pen, lighting one-match campfires, and running for inordinate amounts of time outdoors.

Primary location: New York United States