11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. His efforts to improv local news coverage of the Muslim community at this time was covered by the Miami New Times. He was also a section editor for the nationally syndicated Muslim community newspaper The Muslim Observer, covering the South Florida area. Acting & improvisation Siddiqui would later return to Miami and discover improvisational theater through the Laughing Gas Theater Company. Eventually, he would go on to study improv at Chicago's famous ImprovOlympic and Second City Theaters. He has also studied at Orlando's SAK Comedy Lab, and at New York's PIT and Magnet Theaters. Today, he splits his time between his native Miami, Florida, New York, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, PA, working as an actor and in improv throughout the United States, including performances at the Gainesville Improv Festival and at the Del Close Marathon in New York. He is a regular team member with Laughing Gas Improv, Impromedy, Sick Puppies, The Front Yard Theater Collective, Wunderstudies: The Improvised Musical, The Cellar Dwellers, The Pittsburgh Improv Jam, the Steel City Improv Theater, and They Improv. In 2009, Siddiqui also taught workshops on Improvisational Acting at the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) in Karachi, Pakistan. Cartooning During his time studying and performing improvisation in Chicago in 2008, Siddiqui developed a new form of cartooning by creating live cartoon versions of long-form improv shows, primarily at ImprovOlympic Theater, but also at other area theaters including The Second City, the Annoyance and the Playground. He has since produced hundreds of such illustrations, being hired by many prominent improv teams around the country in the field to catalogue their work at those and at other theaters including iOWest and The Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles, the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York, Theatre 99 in Charleston, South Carolina, the Steel City Improv Theater in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. He has illustrated shows for teams at The Chicago Sketchfest, The Chicago Improv Festival, the Del Close Marathon, and the Gainesville Improv Festival. Music Siddiqui also founded a satiric comedic acoustic eclectic folk fusion band in college called The Muslim Cowboys and performed with them at Islamic events throughout the country. Notes References https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288500/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100908234337/http://www.laughinggasimprov.com/current_cast.htm http://www.impromedymiami.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090331224622/http://chicago.ioimprov.com/ http://www.improvplayhouse.com/ http://www.sakcomedy.com http://www.steelcityimprov.com A well-respected improv news & classified section used by the Chicago Improv Community and the leadership of various local theaters, featuring reviews of his work. Similar improv resource page for the New