Acha Bacha, a play which centers on a
Pakistani-Canadian person who is
nonbinary, struggling to reconcile their gender with their
Muslim upbringing, was staged in a joint production by
Theatre Passe Muraille and
Buddies in Bad Times in 2018, and presented at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace. Baig is the co-creator, a co-writer, and star of
Sort Of, a
CBC Television comedy series centering on a
genderfluid character. The series premiered on CBC in 2021. Subsequently, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced that beginning with the
11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented instead of gendered actor and actress categories Baig was the winner of the inaugural
Canadian Screen Award for Best Leading Performance in a Comedy Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, in addition to their second award for Best Writing in a Comedy Series, again shared with Fab Fillipo. In June 2025 the Toronto theatre company
Buddies in Bad Times announced the production of
Begging Brown Bitch Plays, a show consisting of Baig's one-act plays
Kainchee Lagaa and
Jhooti, for the 2025-26 season. ==Personal life==