Mindy Kaling is one of six creative leaders in comedy honored for Variety‘s 2021 Power of Women. For more, click here.
Mindy Kaling is planting the seeds to grow her own comedy dynasty.
At the moment, her Kaling International is but a small company of women, as she describes it, with former Hulu development executive Jessica Kumai Scott as president plus a couple of assistants and three shows in production. But the actor-writer-producer has visions of expansion.
“There’s so many great production companies out there that have all these shows in the air,” she says. “So they need a head of production, and they have lots of executives. That’s my dream, to get a lot of people eventually.”
For now, the endeavor requires her to be hands-on, because “I do think that my voice is so specific, and the things I like are so specific. So right at the beginning,...
Mindy Kaling is planting the seeds to grow her own comedy dynasty.
At the moment, her Kaling International is but a small company of women, as she describes it, with former Hulu development executive Jessica Kumai Scott as president plus a couple of assistants and three shows in production. But the actor-writer-producer has visions of expansion.
“There’s so many great production companies out there that have all these shows in the air,” she says. “So they need a head of production, and they have lots of executives. That’s my dream, to get a lot of people eventually.”
For now, the endeavor requires her to be hands-on, because “I do think that my voice is so specific, and the things I like are so specific. So right at the beginning,...
- 5/5/2021
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
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