Fatima Liaqat
Fresno, California, United States
Fatima Liaqat is a disabled writer/director who moved from Pakistan to Utah at age 13, where her dad threatened to change his name from Chaudhry to Chad. She has worked as a writer-producer for BuzzFeed Video and written, directed, and produced a short for The Creative Mind Group at Sundance '15.
Fatima and Kyle met while shaving heads and serving people their own piss (respectively) at BuzzFeed, hooked up at the office holiday party, and have been writing and producing together ever since. Kyle loves punching up dialogue and kicking up jokes-per-minute. Fatima's observational storytelling breathes life into lovably flawed characters who follow their hearts, stomachs, and pill regimens (mostly). Together they are 2021 CAPE New Writers Fellows and 2024 Sundance Episodic Lab participants who have pitched series to Max, Disney, and more. They live in LA with their one dog and four Christmas trees.