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Producer · Actor · Writer

1989-03-17 · United Kingdom · Female

4 series in the catalog

Bisha Kanval Ali (born 17 March 1989) is a British stand-up comedian and screenwriter. She is the head writer on the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel (2022) and won the BAFTA Award for Best Writer: Drama for co-writing "Demon 79" (2023), the fifth episode of season six of Black Mirror, with Charlie Brooker.

Early life

Bisha Kanval Ali was born in Hounslow, West London to Pakistani parents.

Career

Ali worked as a data scientist and then a domestic violence support worker, before moving to a career in stand-up comedy under the name Bisha Kanval Ali. In 2012, she participated in the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers programme. Her script Book Club, for a Sky diversity initiative, was optioned by Tiger Aspect Productions. She later wrote additional material for the series Sex Education.

Her first major scriptwriting role was for the 2019 miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral, working with Mindy Kaling. In 2019, she was announced as head writer for the upcoming streaming television series Ms. Marvel for Disney+. She also was a writer on the fellow Marvel Studios series Loki.

Ali has written for The Huffington Post, and co-presented The Guilty Feminist podcast with Deborah Frances-White and GrownUpLand for BBC Radio 4.