Maulik Pancholy is an award-winning actor, author, and activist. His career has spanned the hit television show 30 Rock, the animated series favorite Phineas & Ferb, the Broadway Musical Schmigadoon!, and the forthcoming feature film The Debut. He is the author of The Best at It, which received a Stonewall Honor in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Nikhil Out Loud, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Middle Grade Literature, and the forthcoming Will They, Won’t They. He created, co-wrote, and stars in the award-winning hit Audible series Murder at the Patel Motel. Pancholy served on President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and he co-founded the anti-bullying nonprofit Act To Change.