Variety’s 10 Canadians to Watch spotlights actors, directors, composers ready to break through
In 2018, not long after the well-received premiere of their first full-length play, “Acha Bacha,” at a prestigious alternative theater, Baig was making ends meet by working as a nanny. That fall, the Toronto playwright and performer got cast in a new play and hit it off with fellow thesp Fab Filippo, also a performer who created his own work.
“After the play ended, we started getting together [and] came up with the idea of a half-hour series around a me-like character, and it resonated,” Baig says.
Thus, the series ‘Sort Of” was born. Since the premiere of “Sort Of” a year ago, the dramedy following the intersecting love, work, and family lives of fluid millennial Sabi…
