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Bilal Baig is a Canadian writer and actor, most noted for their play Acha Bacha and television series Sort Of.[2] Acha Bacha, which centers on a non-binary Pakistani-Canadian person struggling to reconcile their gender with their Muslim upbringing,[3] was staged in a joint production by Theatre Passe Muraille and Buddies in Bad Times in 2018.[4]

Bilal Baig
Born	1995 (age 26–27)[1] Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Baig is the co-creator, co-writer, and star of Sort Of, a CBC Television comedy series centering on a genderfluid character.[2] Baig is the first queer South Asian Muslim actor to lead a Canadian primetime television series.[5] The series premiered on CBC in 2021.[5]

Although Sort Of was the top winner overall in television categories at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, Baig notably refused to submit for consideration at all due to the gender division between Best Actor in a Comedy Series and Best Actress in a Comedy Series.[6] The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television subsequently announced that beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented instead of separate gendered actor and actress categories.[7]

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Director(s)	Ref.
2018	Acha Bacha	Playwright	Theatre Passe Muraille	Brendan Healy	[8]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2021	Sort Of	Sabi Mehboob	Lead/Creator

References

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