A Conversation with Mindy Kaling
Cocktail Reception: 6:00 pm
Conversation and Q&A: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 9500 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA
In Person:
Mindy Kaling, Writer, Producer, Author, Director, Actor
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Mindy Kaling
Writer, Producer, Author, Director, Actor
Emmy-nominated writer, Tony Award-winning producer, New York Times best-selling author, director, and actor Mindy Kaling has been named one of the brightest voices of her generation.
In 2023, The White House honored Kaling with the National Medal of Arts, the highest civilian honor given to artists by the United States government and received the Producers Guild of America’s prestigious Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. In 2022, Kaling International was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential Companies. In 2012, Kaling was named to the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World list.
At 24, Kaling joined the eight-person writing staff at NBC’s The Office. During her eight seasons at the show, she wrote twenty-three episodes (far more than any other writer) and was nominated for an Emmy—the first for a woman of color in any writing category.
Kaling is the creator, star, and executive producer of The Mindy Project, for which she wrote 24 of the 117 episodes created over six seasons.
In 2020, Kaling released the critically acclaimed series Never Have I Ever for Netflix. Season 1 reached 40 million homes in its first four weeks of release, with the fourth and final season premiering in 2023 to critical acclaim. Kaling is also the co-creator and executive producer of The Sex Lives of College Girls, which had the biggest premiere of any comedy on Max in 2021. Following its success, the show was renewed for a second and third season. In 2024, Kaling produced the Oscar-nominated short film, Anuja, a powerful story that follows two sisters on a journey to find joy and opportunity in a world intent on their exploitation and exclusion. Kaling is a co-creator, producer, and writer for her new Netflix series Running Point, which held #1 TV Show in the U.S. for two weeks including over a billion minutes viewed in the first week following release.
In between all her ventures, Kaling has released two New York Times bestselling comedic memoirs: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) and Why Not Me?, in addition to a collection of essays titled Nothing Like I Imagined. Most recently, Kaling launched her imprint Mindy's Book Studio for Amazon Publishing, with the mission of publishing titles from new and emerging diverse voices.
