Mindy Kaling is bringing the story of a first-generation Indian-American teenage girl to Netflix. She’s bringing her story to the streamer. Fans of Kaling’s memoirs, 2011’s “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” and 2015’s “Why Not Me?”, will be pleased to hear that Kaling’s childhood and adolescent experiences, which she chronicled extensively in the books, will serve as inspiration for the semi-autobiographical project.
Currently untitled, the half-hour coming-of-age story has received a straight-to-series, 10-episode order from Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news.
Kaling is credited as creator of the series and will serve as writer, exec producer, and showrunner along with Lang Fisher, whom she previously collaborated with on “The Mindy Project.” No word on whether Kaling will have an onscreen role in the series.
The “Office” alumna was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her mother was an ob-gyn and her father an architect. Both her parents are from India, but they met while working in Nigeria. The family emigrated to the U.S. in 1979, the year Kaling was born.
“I come from a family of scientists and architects and doctors,” Kaling has said. “My parents allowed me to do something that no person in my family for generations had ever done.”
The multi-hyphenate has an overall deal with Universal Television.
Kaling penned and starred in one of the biggest hits out of Sundance this year, “Late Night.” Loosely inspired on her own experiences as a writer on “The Office,” the comedy sees a late-night host (Emma Thompson) hiring her first female writer (Kaling). The Nisha Ganatra-directed pic hits theaters June 7. Kaling’s packed slate also includes an upcoming Hulu anthology series based on “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”