Robia Sara Rashid was born on July 30,1977 and is an American television writer-producer and showrunner.
12 Facts About Robia Rashid
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Robia Rashid is widely known as the creator of Netflix original series Atypical.
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Robia Rashid said that she grew up in a biracial family in northern Vermont.
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Robia Rashid's father is from Pakistan and her mother's family's origins are from England and Ireland.
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Robia Rashid said her family was very influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, and were, as she describes them, hippies.
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In 2005, Robia Rashid graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with an master's of fine arts degree in the dramatic writing program.
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Robia Rashid got her start working in the non-profit sector at the Posse Foundation in a college scholarship and mentorship program for inner city kids in Boston.
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Robia Rashid was a playwright in New York City before starting to work in network television.
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Robia Rashid wrote on The Loop and then for Aliens in America.
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From 2008 to 2012, Robia Rashid worked on the TV show How I Met Your Mother, where she started out as a writer and eventually became a supervising producer.
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From 2014 to 2015, Robia Rashid co-executive produced and wrote one episode of the TV series, The Goldbergs.
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Robia Rashid is the creator of the Peabody Award nominated TV show Atypical, a Netflix comedy that premiered in 2017 about a young man on the autism spectrum who begins dating.