Sugith Varughese & Anusree Roy

Rick shares the mic with two of Canada’s most accomplished writer/performers, Sugith Varughese and Anusree Roy. Sugith, born in India and raised in Canada, is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and actor, who was one of the original writers of the classic Muppet TV Show Fraggle Rock. More recently, he"s played recurring characters in Kim"s Convenience on CBC, and Transplant on CTV and NBC. Anusree is a renowned Indo-Canadian actor and writer of plays, television, film and opera, who has worked on major TV shows on CTV/NBC/CBC/Global TV/Netflix/and Paramount+.  She also teaches Playwriting at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. As a trio, they discuss: Auditioning for your own movie DEIB: Diversity, Equity Inclusion, & Belonging Progress or Performance? Breaking in as a brown person Inclusion in Theatre and Television Artificial vs Earned sensibility Elevating minority communities High stakes failure Autonomy and Authorship Fraggle Rock as an Allegory for how to live together Species Inter-dependency The future of theatre And an improvised story XingTheGap.com BoomTheShow.com RickMiller.ca ig: @xingthegap fb: @xingthegap tw, ig: @rickmilleractor tw: @SugithVarughese ig: @SugithVarughese Threads: @SugithVarughese BlueSky: @sugithvarughese.bsky.social fb: @SugithVarughese tw: @i_write_allday ig: @writeranusreeroy www.anusreeroy.com www.kaliroyinc.com