Vera Santamaria has come on board NBC’s new comedy Outsourced, set to air Thursdays this fall after 30 Rock and The Office.

It’s a big coup for the Toronto scribe who landed her first writing gig five years ago, working her way up to domestic series including CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie, CTV’s Degrassi: The Next Generation and How to Be Indie for YTV. She is a graduate of Ryerson University’s radio and television program and was named one of Playback‘s Next 25 rising stars in 2008.

‘To join the writing staff of an NBC show is the realization of a childhood dream that I thought would remain just that. I really, really hoped it would happen, I just can’t believe it did,’ said Santamaria in a release.

She begins working on Outsourced immediately. The comedy, from executive producer Robert Borden (The Drew Carey Show, George Lopez), follows a young manager (Ben Rappaport) who is sent to India to oversee his company’s staff of customer service representatives. Ken Kwapis (The Office) will direct.

Santamaria is repped by ICM and Glenn Cockburn at Meridian Artists.