This Is Us

Composer
SIDDHARTHA KHOSLA

Writer/Director/Executive Producer
KAY OYEGUN

MODERATED BY SUSAN KELECHI WATSON (Actress)

Screening Link available upon Registration

YouTube Live Stream Q&A :
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 6:30PM PT

Everyone has a family. And every family has a story. This Is Us chronicles the Pearson family across the decades: from Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) as young parents in the 1980s to their kids (the big three), Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chrissy Metz), and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) searching for love and fulfillment in the present day along with Toby (Chris Sullivan) and Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson). This grounded, life-affirming dramedy reveals how the tiniest events in our lives impact who we become, and how the connections we share with each other can transcend time, distance, and even death. TV-14 | 45min

Siddhartha Khosla is a two-time Emmy-nominated film and television composer, singer/songwriter, and producer of the critically acclaimed band, Goldspot. Khosla received Emmy nominations in 2020 for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for his original song “Memorized” (shared with Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith) and in 2019 for Outstanding Music Composition For a Series for his work on NBC’s Golden Globe and Emmy-winning drama series, This Is Us, now in its fifth season. Khosla has the distinction of being the first South Asian person to be nominated in the Primetime Emmy score and song categories. Khosla’s upcoming projects include Hulu’s comedy/crime series Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, the comedy film Queenpins by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly and Jason Orley’s dramedy film I Want You Back. Khosla’s music can also be heard on the critically acclaimed Hulu limited series, Looking for Alaska, Hulu’s Love, Victor, The CW’s Nancy Drew, Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu, the 2019 Netflix hip-hop drama feature Beats, the award-winning indie drama feature, The Sounding, from director Catherine Eaton, and more. 

Kay Oyegun is a co-executive producer and writer on NBC’s hit drama series This Is Us and has been with the show since its launch in 2016. Previous TV writing credits include Queen Sugar on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. On the film side, she’s adapting the novel Children of Blood and Bone for Lucasfilm, Fox, and Disney as well as On The Come Up for Paramount. She’s also recently sold a feature to HBO Max titled The Ancestor. She previously sold a feature to Paramount titled Assisted Living. For her work on This Is Us, Oyegun is an NAACP Image Award winner as well as a Humanitas Prize and Writers Guild of America Award nominee.

Susan Kelechi Watson stars as Beth Pearson in the critically acclaimed NBC drama This Is Us, which has earned Emmy Award nominations in 2017, 2018, and 2019 for Outstanding Drama Series. Watson was also nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 NAACP Image Awards, and she earned a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2018 and 2019. This year she starred in and Executive Produced HBO’s Between the World and Me alongside Ta-Nehisi Caotes who wrote the original book and stage play for The Apollo. She started in Sony’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood opposite Tom Hanks for director Marielle Heller. She is an Executive Producer of Rashaad Ernesto Green’s film Premature, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. She currently serves on the board of Drama Club, an organization that uses theater to mentor incarcerated youths in New York City.

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Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Tuesday, May 11, 10 minutes before Q&A start.

Attendees can ask questions on YouTube chat, and the SCL Host will pass them on to the Moderator. The SCL Member Code of Conduct applies to online Q&As.

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