Shishir Kurup Biography (1961-)

Full name, Shishir Ravindran Kurup; also known as Gupta Shishir Kurup, according to some sources; born November 2, 1961, in Bombay, India; son of Ravi andBhavani (maiden name; Mathews) Kurup; companion of Page Leong (an actress).

Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, director, writer, composer
Birth Details: November 2, 1961; Bombay, India

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
Celestial Alphabet Event, One Dream Theatre, New York City, 1991
EXILE: Ruminations on a Reluctant Martyr (solo show), Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA, 1992, and other productions, including onesat the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, the New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City, the University of Massachusetts,Amherst, MA, the Green Room, Manchester, England, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London
A Slice of Rice, Frijoles, and Greens, Great Leap Theatre, 1992, Loyola University Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1998
Assimilation (solo show), Mark Taper Forum, 1992, the Village, Hollywood, CA, 2002
Life and Death: The Vaudeville Show, The Artists' Collective/Los Angeles Theatre Center, Santiago, Cuba, 1993
The Central Ave. Chalk Circle, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Watts,Los Angeles, 1995
Malliere, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Santa Monica Place Mall, Santa Monica, CA, 1996
Major Tours
The California Seagull, California and Massachusetts cities, c. 1995-96
Stage Director
Skeleton Dance, New Works Festival, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, 1991
Ghurba, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles Theatre Festival,University of California, Los Angeles, 1993
Cleveland Raining, East West Players, 1995
(With Bill Rauch) Everyman at the Mall (also known as Everyman), Cornerstone Theatre Company, Santa Monica Place Mall, Santa Monica, CA,c. 1995, also produced at multiple southern California malls, 1997
Film Appearances
Khoudri, Coneheads, Paramount, 1993
Raji, The Trigger Effect, Gramercy Pictures, 1996
Jimmy, City of Angels (also known as Stadt der Engel), Warner Bros., 1998
Abu Statlin, Dill Scallion, The Asylum, 1999
Voice of Hisham Badir, Anywhere but Here, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1999
Turbans (short film), Different Drum Productions, 2000
Loy, The Want, 2001
Surfer clerk, The Zeros, Zilch Company, 2001
Alex, A Day without a Mexican (also known as Un dia sin mexicanos), Altavista Films, 2004
Maitre d', In Good Company (also known as Synergy), Universal, 2004
Sharif and Attah, Sharif Don't Like It, 2006
Film Work
Director, Sharif Don't Like It, 2006
Television Appearances
Series
X-Ray the cab driver, Murder in Small Town X (also known as Endgame), Fox, 2001
Dr. Krishna Singh, Surface (also known as Fathom), NBC andSci-Fi Channel, beginning 2005
Movies

Sujat, The Prime Gig, Independent Film Channel, 2000
Specials
California Seagull--The Short Cut (short), KCET (PBS affiliate), 1996
Episodic
Dr. Rajid, "The Bad Boy in the Plastic Bubble," Nurses, NBC, 1992
Dr. Tarica, "Perfectly Perfect," Beverly Hills 90210, Fox, 1993
Pakistani medical student, "Feb 5, '95," ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, 1995
Anesthesiologist, "Sweet Surrender," Chicago Hope, CBS, 1996
Anesthesiologist, "A Time to Kill," Chicago Hope, CBS, 1996
Harshad Ghafoor, "Chapter Thirteen," Murder One, ABC, 1996
Gurdip Sahel, "Eight Pounds of Pressure," C-16: FBI (also known asC-16), ABC, 1997
Glenn, "Welcome to Bent Copper," Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (also known as SOF, Inc., S.O.F., Inc. and S.O.F. Special Ops Force), syndicated, 1999
Obstetrician and gynecologist, "Oh What a Piece of Work Is Man," Chicago Hope, CBS, 1999
Anesthesiologist, "Cold Hearts," Chicago Hope, CBS, 2000
Jayanti Salimpour, City of Angels, CBS, c. 2000
Nitin Sharma, "Darkness for Light," Judging Amy, CBS, 2001
Restaurant owner, "The Room," Six Feet Under, HBO, 2001
Zach, "Bad Moon Rising," The West Wing, NBC, 2001
Zach, "The Stackhouse Filibuster," The West Wing, NBC, 2001
Doctor, "Bite Me," Charmed, The WB, 2002
Saeed Akhtar, "Passage: Part 1," Alias, ABC, 2002
Carmole Swarma, "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect," Monk, USA Network, 2003
Vedic astrologer, "Who's Sari Now?," Miss Match, NBC, 2003
"Blocked Lines," Strong Medicine, Lifetime, 2003
Howard, "The People vs. Sergius Kovinsky," The D.A., ABC, 2004
Adeeb Amar, "Bale to the Chief," NYPD Blue, ABC, 2005
Emergency room doctor, "Flashpoint," The Closer, TNT, 2005
Pilots
Mr. Shandra, Veronica's Video, UPN, 1997
Dr. Krishna Singh, Surface (also known as Fathom), NBC andSci-Fi Channel, 2005
RECORDINGS
Audiobooks
His Holiness Dalai Lama, Victor Chan, and Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, The Wisdomof Forgiveness: Intimate Journeys and Conversations, Riverhead, 2004
WRITINGS
Stage Plays
Skeleton Dance, New Works Festival, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, 1991
EXILE: Ruminations on a Reluctant Martyr (solo show), Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA, 1992, and other productions, including onesat the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, the New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City, the University of Massachusetts,Amherst, MA, the Green Room, Manchester, England, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London
On Caring for the Beast, Highways Performance Space, c. 1992, Currican Theatre, New York City, 2001, also produced elsewhere
Assimilation (solo show), Mark Taper Forum, 1992, the Village, Hollywood, CA, 2002
Ghurba, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Los Angeles Theatre Festival,University of California, Los Angeles, 1993
(With others) Life and Death: The Vaudeville Show, The Artists' Collective/Los Angeles Theatre Center, Santiago, Cuba, 1993
(Adaptation) Sid Arthur (adaptation of the Hermann Hesse work Siddhartha), Cornerstone Theatre Company, St. John's United Methodist Church, Watts, Los Angeles, c. 1994-95
Merchant on Venice (based on the William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice), South Asian League of Artists in America, New York City, 2001, Lark Theatre Studio, New York City, 2004
As Vishnu Dreams, Cornerstone Theatre Company and East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theatre at the Union Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, 2004
Music for the Stage
Songs, Sid Arthur (adaptation of the Hermann Hesse work Siddhartha), Cornerstone Theatre Company, St. John's United Methodist Church, Watts, Los Angeles, c. 1994-95
Songs, The Central Ave. Chalk Circle, Cornerstone Theatre Company,Watts, Los Angeles, 1995
Everyman at the Mall (also known as Everyman), CornerstoneTheatre Company, Santa Monica Place Mall, Santa Monica, CA, c. 1995, also produced at multiple southern California malls, 1997
As You Like It: A California Concoction (based on the William Shakespeare play As You Like It), Cornerstone Theatre Company, P.L.A.Y./Center Theatre Group, Pasadena, CA, 2006
Screenplays
Sharif Don't Like It, 2006

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