He also had a recurring guest-star role as Professor Dawley on the first season of the series The Zombie Chronicles, from creator Lisa Waring, a slice of life series about a young, aspiring hip-hop artist/zombie in a world where zombies are a normal part of life. That year he also voice-directed and co-starred in the animated film Box Life, from writer/director Michael Sirjue. In 2021, Siddiqui appeared as head hospital lawyer Neil Persaud on the hit show New Amsterdam on NBC opposite Tyler Labine, and as murder suspect Muhammed Qadir on the long-running CBS crime-drama Blue Bloods opposite stars Donnie Wahlberg and Marisa Ramirez. In 2022, Siddiqui voiced the recurring character JR, a bumbling squadroom cop on the first season of the Amazon Prime original Mexican comedy series Harina, based on a viral hit comedic sketch from popular video sketch comedy group Backdoor. He also guest-starred on the hit CBS series FBI, produced by Dick Wolf, as mercenary Tamir Hazara, an old arch-nemesis of series star Zeeko Zaki's Agent OA Zidan, who returns from apparent death in Afghanistan to wreak vengeance in New York City. Siddiqui has also recently completed work as a recurring character on the upcoming 2023 Paramount+ series Lioness, starring Zoe Saldana, Nicole Kidman and Laysla de Oliveira. Siddiqui has also appeared in commercials for Home Depot, Capital One, Math Wizard, Danbury Hospital and others. He regularly performs with such South Florida improvisational troupes as Laughing Gas and Impromedy, with the Improv Playhouse in Libertyville, Illinois, and with the Steel City Improv Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is currently a co-director and performer with The Front Yard Theater Collective which produces a monthly variety show at the historic Olympia Theater in Miami. Siddiqui is also a cartoonist, having created a new field of live illustration of improvised theater shows, which he does for improv theaters throughout the country. Journalism Siddiqui studied journalism in college and graduated from the University of Miami in 2003 with a degree in English and Communication. After graduation, he moved to Indianapolis and worked for Islamic Horizons Magazine in Plainfield as an assistant editor and then to Chicago for a time as reporting fellow with Northwestern University's Academy for Alternative Journalism and the Chicago Reader in 2004. He has also freelanced for The Miami Herald and The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, including helping to cover the local Muslim community reaction to the Sept.