Mindy Kaling Playwriting Degree, , Kaling was born Vera Mindy Chokalingam on June 24, 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a Tamil father and a Bengali mother from India. Her father, Avu, is an architect, and her mother, Swati Roysircar, was a gynecologist.
She has been referred to as Mindy ever since her mother was pregnant with her when her parents were living in Nigeria. They were already planning to move to the United States and wanted a “cute American name” for their daughter, and liked the name Mindy from the TV show Mork & Mindy. The name Vera is the name of the “incarnation of a Hindu goddess”.
Kaling graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. She attended High School with Boston sports talk radio show host Mike Salk. The following year, she entered Dartmouth College, where she was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe “The Dog Day Players” and the a cappella group “The Rockapellas”, creator of the comic strip “Badly Drawn Girl” in The Dartmouth (the college’s daily newspaper), and a writer for the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern (the college’s humor magazine). Kaling graduated in 2001 with a BA in Playwriting.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Mindy Kaling Playwriting Degree
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