- Born
- Birth nameSheila Yael Carrasco
- Sheila Carrasco was recently featured in the 2018 JFL New Face of Comedy: Characters showcase. Sheila is from the South Side of Chicago and went to NYU and Harvard. She is half Chilean/Mapuche and half white American. Recent credits include: I Think You Should Leave w/ Tim Robinson, The Good Place, Jane the Virgin, Outmatched, The Odd Couple, Life in Pieces, American Housewife, and #VanLife for NBC/Univ. She is a creator for Más Mejor- Broadway Video's premium comedy studio for Latinx voices. Sheila performed and wrote in the 2018 CBS Diversity Showcase. In 2019 she was the Head Writer and created and ran the inaugural staffed writers room. She is a veteran of the Groundlings Sunday Company and is a proud member of IAMA Theatre Company, where she performed her one-woman play "Anyone But Me". Black Lives Matter.- IMDb mini biography by: Sheila Carrasco
- SpouseJosh Grogan(? - present)
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Sheila speaks Spanish, a little bit of Russian, and was at one point a Latin scholar.
- Sheila's brother is a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps and her sister is a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
- Sheila's father is from Curacautín, a small rural town in the Araucanian region of southern Chile. After a chance meeting with her American mother in Temuco (and without speaking a word of each other's languages), they fell in love, married, and subsequently fled the overthrow in 1973, leaving everything behind.
- Sheila has a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, with a focus on directing and set design. She has an MFA from Harvard University and Moscow Art Theatre.
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