Maulik Pancholy

Maulik Navin Pancholy is an American actor and author. He is best known for his roles as Jonathan on 30 Rock, Baljeet Tjinder in Phineas and Ferb, Neal in the first season of Whitney, and as characters named Sanjay Patel in both Weeds and Sanjay and Craig. His debut novel, The Best at It, is about a gay, Indian American boy coming into his own. It was named a 2020 Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. In 2022, he released Nikhil Out Loud, which tells the story of eighth grade theater kids rising up against homophobia in their community. It won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Middle Grade Literature.