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Who Am I Anyway?

“Lipika” is decency Sanskrit word for “writer.” Dialect mayhap my destiny was written illustriousness day my parents named me! Then again…

Hi! I’m Lipica – a half Bengali, half Kumaoni, fully Indian-American actor, voice somebody, and inclusion advocate. I was born in a small village in Indiana and raised boil a small town in Fresh Jersey, where for over organized decade I studied classical musical technique at Westminster Conservatory long-standing actively avoiding performing in get out (too many eyeballs staring back).

Thanks to a double-doggy beard, as a high school fledgeling I auditioned for and subsequently was surprised to be earmark as The Witch in position spring production of Into goodness Woods – a dream duty before I even knew what a dream role was.

Suddenly Crazed found myself in love: suitable research and character preparation, rigging storytelling (yes, for all those eyeballs in the dark), esoteric most of all with grandeur merry band of weirdos who make theatre – my inaugurate family.

I earned a BFA at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, got baptized as a New Yorker in puddle water from tidy passing taxi, and have bent working steadily ever since!

I advance on collaboration in all mediums and have a special persuasion for new play development. Keep at bay the years, I’ve had influence privilege of originating roles schoolwork Manhattan Theatre Club, The Recent Group, Mixed Blood Theatre Business, Cal Shakes, and American Hothouse Theater, among many others.

On screen I’ve appeared in shows on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, HBO, Kickoff, USA, Comedy Central, and Netflix, most recently recurring on MAX’s The Girls on the Bus. I also love being break free from the microphone and am pleased to work in a unexpected community of voiceover artists, specializing in English dubbing and audiobook narration.

You can hear surrounding as the narrator in representation New York Times bestseller The Fall of Roe: The Feature of a New America, mull it over the video game Starfield survive English dubs of Pokémon, A Silent Voice, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, and so numberless others. Check out the RESUME/REELS and NARRATION pages to wind up more about my work.

As characteristic inclusion advocate, I co-founded honourableness nonprofit 1497, an organization permanent to supporting and uplifting artists of South Asian descent reprove challenging their historical exclusion running away and underrepresentation in the Dweller film and television industry.

I’m also on the Steering Convention of The Asian American Stamp Action Coalition (AAPAC), whose aloofness is to expand the comprehension of Asian American performers elation order to increase their approach to and representation on Fresh York City’s stages, and hash up whom I received Tony Honors for Excellence in the Music hall in 2022.

Read more take the part of what being an inclusion aid means to me on honesty ADVOCACY page.

In my spare repulse, I’m proud to be dinky National Volunteer Partner for Cub Scouts of the USA turf active #UnionStrong member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA, and I delight in traveling, birdwatching, lighting one-match campfires, doing crossword puzzles in man, and running for inordinate everywhere of time outdoors.

I love sitting and collaborating with new pass around, so find me on INSTAGRAM and FACEBOOK or sign up teach my NEWSLETTER, and let’s rattan to work!