Neha Talreja

Freelance Writer and Producer

United States

Neha Talreja is a versatile writer with published work as a comedy writer & standup, music & arts journalist, and copywriter.

She’s trained at UCB, iO West, and the Pack Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Neha is part of Browntourage (www.browntourage.com)—a collective media agency dedicated to supporting the work of diverse culture makers that has been featured in Refinery29, The Creator’s Project, and more. Her humor, arts & culture takes have been featured in SF Weekly, KQEDPop, and the Village Voice. She currently writes for the Pack’s house sketch team Detention and performs stand-up all over LA & the Bay Area.

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SF Weekly
08/04/2017
Epileptic Bicycles and Pessimistic Jenga -- Kid Stores Turn Dark

Teen-angst hero Daria once asked, "Is life always taudry, stupid, and humiliating? Or is it just a phase?" In San Francisco, no one understands this better than our precocious little beacons of hope -- the children. Full author page/archives: http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/ArticleArchives?author=2127206

SF Weekly
08/04/2018
Norwegian Reality Dating Show Wants to Help San Franciscans Find Love

From the producers of Jakten på kjærligheten: Bonderomantikk ( Farmer Wants a Wife) comes yet another Norwegian reality TV show, Sons of Norway -- which is casting in San Francisco for its second season. Norwegian reality TV programming featuring Norwegian-American "contestants" has spiked in popularity in the last couple of years.

SF Weekly
08/08/2012
You're a Good, Angsty Teen, Charlie Brown: Dog Sees God at Boxcar - By - SF Weekly

Linus van Pelt, Charlie Brown's best friend in Charles M. Schulz's beloved Peanuts comic, usually played the role of the theologian amongst the gang, often reflecting Schulz's own faith by quoting from the Gospels. In Bert V. Royal's play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, a teenaged Linus, "Van," (because in general writers ... Full author page/archives: http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/ArticleArchives?author=2127206

KQED Pop
04/02/2013
7 Web Shows You Should Start Watching Now

Is it too soon to ask who watches TV on TV anymore? I can't remember the last time I wasn't getting real snuggly with my toasty MacBook while catching up on an entire season of How I Met Your Mother.

SF Weekly
08/04/2017
Shit Asian Moms Say: The Touching, Hilarious Musical Legacy of the Tiger Mother

Two-woman musical Legacy of the Tiger Mother doesn't deal with the most original themes (motherhood, Asian-American stereotypes, a little bit of Mao thrown in a back story) in its delightful one-piano, two-voice production, but I'll be damned if I wasn't choking down a few smiling tears with the best of em' by the end -- maybe its my own biological clock kicking in, maybe I'm a sucker for sentiment, maybe I just really miss my mom. Full author page/archives:...