Aliya Kamalova is a Kazakh-American writer and performer currently residing in Los Angeles. She has written for Hallmark, Lionsgate, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Team Coco Digital, Reductress, and the UCBLA Maude. For 5 years, Aliya co-hosted and produced The Best Friends Show, a storytelling show performed monthly at Meltdown and The Virgil, as well as in festivals like New York Comedy Fest and Riot Fest L.A. She currently performs in a two-women interactive tech-comedy show called Password 1234 that she co-wrote and co-directed with her comedy partner, Kim Seltzer. Aliya is the host of the comedy podcast, Science Communicatorz, on the Consider This Media network. You can see her independent sketch pilot All This For What?
