Bisha K. Ali

Bisha K. Ali (born 17 March 1989) is a BAFTA award-winning British stand-up comedian and screenwriter. She is the head writer for the streaming television series Ms. Marvel for Disney+. Bisha Ali was born to Pakistani parents. She worked as a data scientist and then a domestic violence support worker before moving to a career in stand-up comedy. In 2012, she participated in the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers programme. Her script Book Club, for a Sky diversity initiative, was optioned by Tiger Aspect Productions. She later wrote additional material for the series Sex Education. Her first major scriptwriting role was for the 2019 miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral, working with Mindy Kaling. In 2019, she was announced as head writer for the upcoming streaming television series Ms. Marvel for Disney+. She also was a writer on the fellow Marvel Studios series Loki. Ali has written for The Huffington Post and co-presented The Guilty Feminist podcast with Deborah Frances-White and GrownUpLand for BBC Radio 4. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bisha K. Ali, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ms. Marvel

Go behind-the-scenes every step of the way with immersive footage from the making of the series, along with insightful interviews on set from the cast and crew of Ms. Marvel as we watch Iman Vellani and her character, Kamala Khan, become the fan-favorite superhero right before our eyes.

Release Date2022-08-03

Charactersd Self - Head Writer

Vote Count34

Black Mirror

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Release Date2011-12-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count6116

Loki

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

Release Date2021-06-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count12327

Ms. Marvel

A great student, avid gamer, and voracious fan-fic scribe, Kamala Khan has a special affinity for superheroes, particularly Captain Marvel. However, she struggles to fit in at home and at school — that is, until she gets superpowers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life is easier with superpowers, right?

Release Date2022-06-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1422

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Maya, the young communications director for a New York senatorial campaign, receives a wedding invitation from her college schoolmate now living in London. She leaves her professional and personal life behind, in favor of traveling to England and reconnecting with old friends and ends up in the midst of their personal crises. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course, there are four weddings…and a funeral.

Release Date2019-07-31

DepartmentWriting

JobStaff Writer

Episode Count10

Vote Count43

The Baby

When 38 year-old Natasha is unexpectedly landed with a baby, her life of doing what she wants, when she wants, dramatically implodes. Controlling, manipulative and with violent powers, the baby twists Natasha's life into a horror show. Where does it come from? What does it want? And what lengths will Natasha have to go to in order to get her life back?

Release Date2022-04-24

DepartmentProduction

JobConsulting Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count83