UNIONS - AEA
TV & FILM - [View Reel]
CUFF Neil TisLit Productions
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Muslim Husband ABC/"Hostile Hostess"
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Mohammad ABC/"Meet the Parents"
MYSTERIES AT THE CASTLE Robert Figueroa Travel Channel
BK Pardiv Dir. Jay Julian Cohen
LILY IN THE GRINDER Nik Dir. Michael Morgenstern
A SEPARATION Nader Columbia MFA Peter Miner course
BLACKTORS Rick Front Stoop Productions (pilot read)
DEAR BROTHER Saleem* Wable Brothers Film
FOG CITY Baldo Seed & Spark Productions (table-read)
YAATRA Anand Mystic Elephant Films, Dirs. Erica Gould/Dipti Mehta
ANTIGONE 5000 Darius Boy Genius Films, Dir. Yongsoo Park
* Kesav was a NexTV semi-finalist in its 2012 Acting/Directing search for this role
THEATER
THERE IS A FIELD (Tour) Asel Asleh Donkey Saddle Productions, Dir. Noelle Ghoussaini
EMERALD GIRL Rajiv Planet Connections, Dir. Joan Kane
IINJA O OONJA Omid LPAC Reading, Dir. Ari Laura Kreith
BHUTA/KALA Yebilla NYU Tisch MFA Presentation
TSUNAMI Bassam PEN World Voices Play Festival 2014
HOW I DIED Chetan Strawberry One-Act Play Festival 2014
SOUNDWAVES Vilayat Khan NY Fringe Festival 2013
RINGMASTER Sidd 2013 FRIGID Theater Fest, Dir. Adam Knight
CHAOS THEORY Mukesh 2012 South Asian Theater Fest
YAABA Faruk Roy Aria Studios, New York City
JULIUS CAESAR Murellus & others National Black Theatre, Harlem, Dir. Timothy D. Stickney
KING LEAR Edmund Waterloo Bridge Playhouse, Brooklyn
BANYAN TREE Raj Gene Frankel Theater
KHADDISH Hossein Theater for the New City
LINE Stephen 13th St. Repertory Theater
WAITING FOR GODOT Vladmir Haverford College, PA
SALOME Tigellinus Haverford College, PA
COMMERCIAL & VOICEOVER
Conflicts available upon request. Experience includes national and online campaigns as well as industrial.
TRAINING & EDUCATION
Upright Citizens Brigade - Improv 201
ABC/SAMMA Audition workshop, Marci Phillips (ABC Casting)
Vocal Training, Marcy Jellison
Betty Buckley's Masters Acting Class T. Schreiber Studio, NYC
B.A. Political Science, 2004 Haverford College, PA
J.D. cum laude, 2008 Brooklyn Law School, NY
LANGUAGE & SKILLS
Languages: Hindi (basic conversation), Kannada (South-Indian dialect, fluent), Spanish (proficient),
Accents: Standard American, British (MP/North London), Indian, Arab (various regions), Hispanic (various regions)
Skills: Singing (Bari-tenor, Tenor), Stage-Combat (hand-to-hand, some weapon experience), Dance (Bollywood, Latin, Hip Hop/Dancehall), Boxing, Baseball, Basketball, Tennis, Football, Running, Painting/Sketching, Pottery.
**REEL COMING SOON!
Writing Credits
Screen
Cuff, TV pilot
- Official Selection - New York Television Festival, Independent Pilot Competition (2018)
Dear Brother, short film adaptation
- Maison des Scenaristes pitch competition winner at Cannes Film Festival (2018)
- Official Selection Santa Cruz Film Festival (2012)
- Official Selection Chicago International Social Change Film Festival (2012)
Dear Brother, feature screenplay
- Shortlisted for 2013 Sundance Screenwriters Lab
- Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival – 2nd Place Screenplay Competition
For Flow, short-film based on play
- HBO American Black Film Festival Finalist (2011)
- Official Selection New York Digital Short Film Festival, Texas Black Film Festival (2011)
Stage
Clothesline, short-play
- The Green Roof Fundraiser at Theater for the New City (2009)
For Flow
- Staged Reading: ActNow Productions- New Voices in American Theater, Brooklyn, NY (2011)
- Staged Reading: High Concept Laboratories, Chicago (2011)
- Produced by 25 to Life Productions, LLC – Theater for the New City, New York, NY (2008)
- Award: 2005-06 Resident Fellow at Lark Play Development Theater, New York, NY
Ashoka’s Wheel, Rasaka Theater Company
- Award: Finalist, Chicago Dramatists Many Voices Project (2005)