NAHREEN TARZI

Nahreen Tarzi is a writer, director, comedian, and big advocate of dance parties. She served as the Head Writer for the 2018 CBS Diversity Showcase, featured on Deadline.com, and was also the Head Writer at Frederator Networks - an MCN with over 2 billion monthly views- from 2016 to 2018.
 

Nahreen was most recently a Writer and Creative Director for Moonbug Entertainment, the children's global media company behind content like Blippi, Cocomelon, and T-Rex Ranch. She was also a freelance Writer for Spin Master & NICKELODEON'S new PAW Patrol spinoff series, Rubble & Crew.

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Nahreen was a Finalist for the Universal Animation Writing Program 2021, was a Semi-Finalist for the Disney-ABC Writing Program 2018, was 1 in 5 Comedy Finalists with JuntoBox Films for FIRST GENS, and won "Best Director" for the Crazy Woke Asians festival in 2019. Nahreen was also featured in VoyageLA magazine in 2019.

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LA Weekly chose M.E. So Funny – a 2-woman sketch show poking fun at Middle-Eastern culture that Nahreen wrote and directed – for their pick-of-the-week in August 2015. The show was also booked at UC Riverside, and received a great review from their newspaper, as well as showcased at the Comedy Central Stage in Hollywood.

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Nahreen was born in Toronto, Canada, but grew up in Burbank, California. She is of full Syrian descent, her parents having been born and raised in Aleppo, Syria. Nahreen is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory, has also studied at The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade, and has performed stand-up for over 13 years.

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Nahreen has production experience working for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Lopez Tonight, Last Call with Carson Daly, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Arsenio Hall Show, and many more.

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Nahreen has a B.A. in both English (Creative Writing) and Spanish from Loyola Marymount University, with minors in Screenwriting and Journalism.

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Nahreen has been writing since she was 8 years old. Her first book, The Man Who Ate the Dinosaur, was a hit with her second grade class. She has since written countless short stories, poems, plays, songs, articles, sketches, jokes, film scripts, and TV scripts.

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Nahreen enjoys cheeseburgers, books, and gangster rap. She dislikes pansies, flaky people, and onions.