Lakshmi Sundaram is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Born in

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, Sundaram studied writing at

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. She also received an MFA in Film from Columbia University's School of the Arts. Sundaram's first writing credit was for the

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musical drama television series '' Smash'', co-writing the episode "

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" with Jason Grote. She would join the writing staff for ''

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'', writing for them from 2013 to 2016, and in 2018, as part of the crew for ''

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'', she would receive a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series. Several of the television shows she has worked on have won

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, and garnered great critical acclaim. Sundaram wrote the episode "Protect Ya Neck" in season 2 of the

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series '' Wu-Tang: An American Saga''. The episode received critical and commercial praise, and remains the show's highest rated episode. Lakshmi Sundaram is the namesake and great-granddaughter of

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, an Indian pioneer of civil rights, the first woman to sit as Vice President on any legislature in the world, and peer of

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and

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. Sundaram's other relatives include the Indian actors

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and

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. In 2021, Sundaram's accomplishments were profiled by

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, receiving the cover of the magazine's culture section.

References

External links

Lakshmi Sundaram
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sundaram, Lakshmi Year of birth missing (living people) American people of Indian descent American television writers Columbia University School of the Arts alumni People from Brooklyn Living people