Abdullah Saeed

Abdullah Saeed (born May 18, 1984) is a Pakistani-American TV producer, host, writer, and actor. He produced and hosted several TV shows and documentaries for Vice.[1]

This article is about the TV producer. For the academic, see Abdullah Saeed (professor). For the general, see Abdullah Saeed (general).
Abdullah Saeed
Born (1984-05-18) May 18, 1984
Hanover, NH, U.S.
Alma materTemple University
Occupation
  • producer
  • writer
  • host
  • actor

Personal life

Saeed was born in New Hampshire to a Pakistani family.[2] He grew up in Thailand, where his father worked at a college campus, and his mother is a nurse. He speaks both English and Urdu.[2]

Career

Saeed wrote a weekly online column called Weediquette from 2012 to 2014. His works include the James Beard Award-nominated series Bong Appétit[3] and Vice Does America on Viceland, as well as the Webby Award-winning documentary Mad Honey.

Saeed stopped making content for Vice Media in protest in 2017 in the wake of allegations that Vice tolerated an abusive workplace culture and sexual harassment, and their practice of making employees sign “non-traditional workplace agreements” to protect themselves from being sued by employees for issues arising from said workplace culture.[4]

Saeed is a former member of The Kominas.

Saeed is a writer and actor on the HBO series High Maintenance.

Saeed co-hosts a podcast called Great Moments In Weed History.

Saeed is co-writing a film with Ben Sinclair for Fox Searchlight and New Regency.[5]

Views

Saeed is an advocate for cannabis liberalization and education. He describes his family as "pretty liberal and open minded" who are "very aware of the creativity that cannabis inspires".[2]

gollark: Hi.
gollark: Except that the SPUDNET client in potatOS randomly crashed because of course it did. I really ought to work on the SPUDNET-2 protocol.
gollark: Anyway, it seems to be running fine in production, so good news there.
gollark: Never mind, that was just because the key was missing a letter.
gollark: I've encountered mysterious unforseen difficulties with the new SPUDNET thing, *somehow*.

References
  1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdsae
  2. Larson, Andrea (3 July 2017). "Abdullah Saeed's Canntastic Voyage: Part 1". Dope Magazine. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  3. "Bong Appétit" – via www.imdb.com.
  4. Trock, Gary (November 16, 2017). "Viceland 'Bong Appétit' Host Quits Network in Wake of Scandal". The Blast.
  5. "'High Maintenance' Creator Developing Prison Musical Film (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
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