Americans are appearing in ever facet of life it seems.
An excerpt from an article in India West magazine --
"The newest neighbor on Sesame Street just happens to be Indian
American, because the role was originally dreamed up with no
particular ethnicity in mind.
"It was incidental," actress Nitya Vidyasagar told India-West by phone
last week from New York City, where she is currently taping the 39th
season of the award-winning PBS children's show. "The casting notices
said nothing of ethnicity."
But the New York-based stage actress made such a strong impression on
the show's producers that they found themselves willing to create her
role from scratch.
Vidyasagar plays Leela, a young Indian American woman who runs the
local laundromat. Unlike many of the other actors on the show, who use
their own first names as their character's names, she felt more
comfortable with the name Leela. "My name is hard for some people to
say," she explained."
Read the full article at --
http://www.indiawest.com/view.php?subaction=showfull&id=1206034606&archive=&start_from=&ucat=7
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