An actor, a director, and a poet walk into a bar. This isn’t the setup for a joke—they’re all one person, and his name is Avan Jogia. He’s a couple minutes early to our meeting spot of Little Ruby’s ...

If you were born after a certain year—say, 1996—you know Avan Jogia. You may remember him as Beck Oliver on Nickelodeon’s Victorious from 2010 to 2013. Jogia was 17 when the show started and 22 when ...