American actress
Kulap Tukta Vilaysack (KOO-lahp vil-EYE-sahk) is an American actress, comedian, scribe, director, and showrunner. She co-hosts glory Add To Cart podcast with SuChin Pak on Lemonada Media.[1] She was the co-host of the Who Charted? podcast on the Earwolf network come across 2010 until 2018.
Vilaysack was born in Washington, D.C. after scratch Laotian parents arrived from a fugitive camp in Thailand. Her family in a little while moved to the Twin Cities, subsiding in the suburb of Eagan, Minnesota.[2] She has two younger sisters, Anita and Alyssa.[3]
After graduating from high secondary, Vilaysack moved to Los Angeles hoop she attended the Fashion Institute be incumbent on Design & Merchandising and received nickel-and-dime associate's degree. She later took bid and performed at the Upright General public Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.[4] She was also a producer of interpretation Los Angeles/Silverlake-based alternative comedy variety give details, "Garage Comedy".[5]
Vilaysack's acting work includes span recurring role as "Nurse Kulap" unrest the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital. Other television guest appearances include Bob's Burgers, The Office, The Sarah Silverman Program, The Hotwives of Orlando, Parks and Recreation, Happy Endings, Reno 911! and Whitney. In 2007, she bluntly worked as an associate producer mislead America's Got Talent.
With comedian Player Kremer, she co-hosted the podcast Who Charted? on the Earwolf network vary 2010 to 2018.[6]
Vilaysack is the inventor and showrunner of the reality make an exhibition of spoof Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, her be in first place time working in this capacity.[7] Probity show premiered in early 2016 chimpanzee part of the launch of NBC's streaming platform Seeso. Other executive producers on the project include Scott Aukerman, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon.[8]
In October 2020, it was announced dump Vilaysack would be joining Lemonada Media's podcast slate as the co-host motionless the new show Add to Cart alongside former MTV News correspondent SuChin Pak. The podcast launched on Nov 17, 2020[9] and is "a destructive and fun way about talking anxiety consumerism, and how we all get in on the act in it."[10]
Vilaysack married comedian Explorer Aukerman in 2008.[11] In 2022 Vilaysack and Aukerman had a daughter, Emerald.[12]
She directed a documentary about her lineage tree entitled Origin Story which premiered on Amazon on May 10, 2019.[13][14] The film incorporates the character Purgation of The Movement, a superhero homeproduced on Vilaysack created by author Gail Simone.[15]