Shishir Kurup

Shishir Kurup

Associate Director, Snow in Midsummer

In four seasons at OSF: Director, Water by the Spoonful; The Happiest Song Play Last; Medea songs; composer and lyricist, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella.

Other theatres: Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (Center Theatre Group); Disgraced (first regional production, Playmakers Repertory Company); James McManus’ Love on San Pedro, Sarah Ruhl’s Demeter in the City, Tracy Young’s Candude, Everyman in the Mall, codirected with Bill Rauch (Cornerstone Theater Company); The Good Person of New Haven (Long Wharf Theatre); Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Two Noble Brothers (The Public Theater); As You Like It (Pasadena Playhouse); Touch the Water, Los Vecinos, Birthday of the Century, Central Avenue Chalk Circle, Making Paradise, An Antigone Story (composer/lyricist, Cornerstone Theater Company since 1994).

Other credits: Writer: On Caring for the Beast (Currican Theatre); Merchant on Venice, The DNA Trail: Bolt from the Blue (Silk Road Rising).

Film/TV: Actor: True Blood, NCIS, Coneheads, Bones, Lost, Heroes, Sleeper Cell, NYPD Blue, Monk, Alias, The West Wing, others.

Awards: TIME/A.S.K. Award, Princess Grace Award, Kennedy Center Award, TCG/Alan Schneider Directing Award finalist, L.A. Weekly Award, Garland Awards, Drama-Logue Awards.

Education: MFA, UC San Diego.