Zehra Qarnain Fazal (born August 28, 1984) is an American voice
actress and comedian known for voicing Nadia Rizavi in Voltron:
Legendary Defender and Halo in Young Justice: Outsiders. Greg Weisman,
the co-creator of Young Justice: Outsiders said "I wrote the role with
her in mind. She plays Halo, but she also plays about a dozen other
characters."Prior to her voice acting career, Fazal, who is
Muslim-American and of Pakistani descent, was known for her irreverent
comedy often poking fun at Muslim identity. Her one-woman musical
comedy show Headscarf and the Angry Bitch which she described as
partly fictional and partly autobiographical, created Muslim parodies
of holiday comedy songs The Ramadan Song instead of The Hanukkah Song
and discussed living in America with a "hyphenated identity." Fazal,
who self describes as "the Muslim Weird Al", explains that the show
explores the fact that "the definition of what it is to be Muslim is
expanding and it's okay to be vocal about it." She created the show's
character, Zed Headscarf, as "her tougher, bolder, prouder side"
partly in response to post-9/11 Islamaphobia she encountered. Her
performance won the "best solo performance award" at the Capital
Fringe Festival in 2009 and was sold out throughout its New York
International Fringe Festival run in 2010.Fazal has also portrayed
Adolf Hitler in an adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s play, My Friend
Hitler. She studied with Japan’s Takarazuka Revue Company as a
research intern in 2004. On her return to the U.S., she translated and
staged Takarazuka Revue's The Rose of Versailles at Wellesley College
where she was a student. Fazal explains "I have a knack for taking
something that already exists and making it fit into a new mold."
Fazal is one of the actresses in the video comedy series F#@K I Love U
where she plays doctor Amanda Jain.Fazal was born in Libertyville,
Illinois and grew up in Indiana. She has a B.A. from Wellesley
College. She speaks Japanese, French and Urdu.
actress and comedian known for voicing Nadia Rizavi in Voltron:
Legendary Defender and Halo in Young Justice: Outsiders. Greg Weisman,
the co-creator of Young Justice: Outsiders said "I wrote the role with
her in mind. She plays Halo, but she also plays about a dozen other
characters."Prior to her voice acting career, Fazal, who is
Muslim-American and of Pakistani descent, was known for her irreverent
comedy often poking fun at Muslim identity. Her one-woman musical
comedy show Headscarf and the Angry Bitch which she described as
partly fictional and partly autobiographical, created Muslim parodies
of holiday comedy songs The Ramadan Song instead of The Hanukkah Song
and discussed living in America with a "hyphenated identity." Fazal,
who self describes as "the Muslim Weird Al", explains that the show
explores the fact that "the definition of what it is to be Muslim is
expanding and it's okay to be vocal about it." She created the show's
character, Zed Headscarf, as "her tougher, bolder, prouder side"
partly in response to post-9/11 Islamaphobia she encountered. Her
performance won the "best solo performance award" at the Capital
Fringe Festival in 2009 and was sold out throughout its New York
International Fringe Festival run in 2010.Fazal has also portrayed
Adolf Hitler in an adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s play, My Friend
Hitler. She studied with Japan’s Takarazuka Revue Company as a
research intern in 2004. On her return to the U.S., she translated and
staged Takarazuka Revue's The Rose of Versailles at Wellesley College
where she was a student. Fazal explains "I have a knack for taking
something that already exists and making it fit into a new mold."
Fazal is one of the actresses in the video comedy series F#@K I Love U
where she plays doctor Amanda Jain.Fazal was born in Libertyville,
Illinois and grew up in Indiana. She has a B.A. from Wellesley
College. She speaks Japanese, French and Urdu.
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