Harsh Nayyar

Harsh Nayyar (born in New Delhi) is an actor in movies and theatre. Theatre As a student, in April, 1973, Harsh Nayyar starred as Dracula in a Thompson Theatre production in Raleigh, NC. Nayyar continued to play in various theatre productions. For example, on Broadway, opening March 28, 1979, he was part of the original cast of A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy at Palace Theatre, New York as a photographer. Opening February 27, 2018 off-Broadway, he played a representative of the local Muslim community in An Ordinary Muslim by Hammaad Chaudry at New York Theatre Workshop. 2002, Nayyar played an Esperanto poet ("eloquently sorrowful"), guiding the main character Priscilla through Kabul in Tony Kushner's drama Journey of a Lifetime, set to run for two months in Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In 2004, he portrayed Mr. Begg "with palpable anger and sorrow" in Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo's play Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom at the Culture Project, New York City, at the Studio Theatre (Washington D.C.) and at the Brava Theatre Center (San Francisco CA). Richard Connema noted a "touching performance" of the "heartfelt and poignant story" of Mr. Begg.