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Originally from Chicago, he received his BFA from the Experimental Theatre Wing of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. GQ co-created, co-directed, and starred in the original productions of A Q Brothers Christmas Carol, Othello: The Remix, and Funk It Up About Nothin'. G also co-wrote and starred in the Off Broadway smash hit The Bomb-itty of Errors. Along with his brother and the other Bomb-itty guys, G wrote and starred in a hip-hop/sketch comedy TV show, Scratch and Burn (MTV). G's screen credits include the movies Drumline, Taxi, I Think I Love My Wife and Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn. He wrote, directed and starred in the film Just Another Story (Showtime), has had prominent roles in Chicago PD (NBC), Boston Public (Fox), Numbers (CBS), and co-starred in the one-hour drama Johnny Zero (Fox), and John Herzfeld's pilot, S.I.S (Sony). Together with his brother JQ, he recorded The Feel Good Album of the Year.

GQ&#39;s mother is German and his father is Pakistani

He and JQ&#39;s play, &quot;Funk It Up About Nothin&#39;,&quot; at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2008 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work,.

Brother of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1310272/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">J.A.Q.</a> (Jeffrey Qaiyum), they both appear on the television
show Scratch and Burn together along with Jordan Allan-Dutton and Eric
Weiner.

JQ, Jackson Doran, Postell Pringle and his musical, &quot;A Q Brothers Christmas Carol,&quot; at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for Best New Work in a Musical.

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