Sinéad Persaud

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Sinéad Persaud (born June 12th, 1990) is an Indian-American writer, actress, and producer. She is the Co-founder of Shipwrecked Comedy and is best known for her work with the group. She is also very fond of jam.

## Life

Sinéad Persaud was born on June 12th, 1990 in Massachusetts. She and her siblings, Sean (older brother) and Sadira (younger sister), grew up near Salem, Massachusetts. There they enjoyed the history and spookiness of the area. Her surroundings and interests inspirered her to take up writing as a hobby early on.

After college and living in NYC for a short while, Sinéad moved out to LA. For a long time she was roomates with Alex Ovadia and Sarah Grace Hart (aka the "Bates Ladies"). However, she now lives with her boyfriend, Alec McNamara, and their pet cats.

## Education

Sinéad attened Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in New York City, New York. In 2012, she gratuaded with a BFA in Film and TV.

She has also been apart of several internships including ones at NBC and SNL. Through the NBC Page Program, she met Alex Ovadia and Yulin Kuang.

## Shipwrecked

Sinéad is the Co-founder of Shipwrecked Comedy alongside Yulin Kuang. Sinéad came up with several short sketch ideas including "Edgar Alllan Poe: Girl Scout Cookies" (a short sketch where Poe buys Girl Scout cookies). She went to Yulin with these ideas, and the two decided to form Shipwrecked Comedy in order to make the ideas a reality. To start, she also brought on her brother, Sean Persaud. Along with a small crew, the three created the webseries A Tell Tale Vlog. In A Tell Tale Vlog, she playes the role of Lenore. After the success of their first webseries, the group produced Kissing in the Rain where Sinéad acts the role of Audrey Porter.

After their first two series, the Persaud siblings began to pursue writing Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party. This would be their largest series to date, and it would allow Sinéad to reprise the role of Lenore. During this time, Yulin left the group while Mary Kate Wiles and Sarah Grace Hart joined the group. Mary Kate encouraged the Persuads to *Kickstart* funding for the serious. The funding and later production was a success!

Since Poe Party, Sinéad has continued to write with Sean for the group. She has also acted, produced, and done other various jobs to help turn their ideas into reality. Shipwrecked has allowed her to play a large range of roles including ones that required lots of metaphors, singing, too many beans, and tiny hands. Sinéad has played the parts of Fig Wineshine in The Case of the Gilded Lily and The Case of the Greater Gatsby, Clara Fairbuckle in American Whoopee, Monica in A Book By Its Cover, Jo March in Little VVomen, Mina Harker/ Murry in Friends 'til the End, and more! Currently, she has helped create Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, and she will star as Matilda Bishop in it.

## Other Projects

In addition to Shipwrecked Comedy, Sinéad has been apart of several other webseries, writen various short works, and is a founding memeber of Shitty Broadway. Most noteably, she was apart of the series *Hermione Granger and the Quater Life Crisis* (2017) as Parvati Patil, *2 Kawii 4 Comfort* (2017) episode 5 as Michelle, *Sherlock, by M. Watson* (2020), and *Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye* (2020) as Rita Waldeburg. As well as working with the Tin Can Brothers on *Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye*, she has also been apart of a Brooklyn-99 interactive experince written and directed by the them for Comic Con 2019.

In 2019, Sinéad started the group Shitty Broadway with Mary Kate Wiles, Curt Mega, and Corey Lubowich. The four sought to create a caberet type show where they could put on performances of broadway songs of "shitty" quality. The group has evolved over the years, but it still holds the same core values. Throughout their two shows and *Patreon*, Sinéad has been able to put on fabulous performances such as "Feed me" from *Little Shop of Horrors*, "Sally's Song" from *Nightmare Before Christmas*, "Pulled" from *The Addams Family*, and other group numbers. She has enjoyed the creative liberty and range of songs she has gotten to sing with the group.

enjoys creative liberity writing blah blah blah her wiritng gigs in magazines podcasts etc

## Other Tidbits

-She enjoys tiny hands.

-She has a cat named Gomez.

-She can be commonly seen wearing a witch necklace or pair of bengals (therefore, her characters are often seen wearing them too).

-She (and her brother Sean) were apart of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival New Voices Lab!