Theatre

Ensemble member, Cornerstone Theater Company. Roles have included Macbeth, Feste, Azdak, and Trigorin. For Cornerstone, he has written and directed Ghurba with the Arab-American community in Los Angeles and written, directed, and composed An Antigone Story, a multimedia, Rock-n-Roll hijack of the Sophocles classic.

Writer

Merchant on Venice, Sharif Don’t Like It, Assimilation, Exile: Ruminations on a Reluctant Martyr, In-Between-Space, On Caring for the Beast

Composer

Los Vecinos, Candude, The Good Person of New Haven, As You Like It: A California Concoction, Demeter in the City, Sid Arthur, Birthday of the Century, As Vishnu Dreams

Director

Candude, Los Illegals, Cleveland Raining, Ten Angry Clowns

Television

Series: Surface, Heroes;  Appearances: Numbers, Lost, Sleeper Cell, Monk, Six Feet Under, M.D.s, The West Wing, among others.

Awards

Merchant on Venice, which deals with Hindu/Muslim tensions, has won California Arts Council, Roger. L. Stevens/Kennedy Center and TCG extended collaborations awards and premiered in Chicago at the Silk Road Theatre Project to rave reviews; Ovation Award Nominee, Best Supporting Actor (Malliere, Cornerstone Theater Company); Ovation Award Nominee, Best Actor (Twelfth Night, MedeaMacbethCinderella, Los Biombos)

Other News

Mr. Kurup is an actor-writer-director-composer born in Bombay, India, and raised in Mombasa, Kenya, and the United States. Mr. Kurup was one of only six people nationwide to receive the TIME (Time for Inspiration, Motivation and Exploration) Grant from the Audrey Skirball Foundation in recognition of his body of work.

 

With Stories on Stage

Nothing Ventured..., Sunday, Sunday, April 18, 2010 reading "A Spoiled Man" by Daniyal Mueenuddin.