Skander Halim is a screenwriter from balmy Ottawa, Canada who also loves live sketch comedy because of the quick turnaround time and lack of studio notes. At the Upright Citizens Brigade theater, he writes for the long-running house sketch team Bonafide. His screen and TV credits include the cult comedy feature Pretty Persuasion, the extremely short-lived CW sitcom 18 to Life, the Nickelodeon series Make It Pop and The Other Kingdom, and a bunch of obscure Canadian stuff — but no, not Degrassi.