BALAN

TV & FILM

SHORT FILMS:

• Fool's Gold (Drama): Anu Dasari (Lead) - A talented, struggling sculptor and street performer, desperately seeking the success he believes he is owed in a world where he is often seen as a misfit.
• Christmas is a Contest (Action Comedy): Nicholas (Lead) - A passionate, incompetent manager trying to motivate his team to victory in the annual Christmas decoration contest, by any means necessary.
• Ramen Symphony (Drama): Tim (Supporting) - A disgruntled, ill-tempered, overworked cook at a Ramen restaurant, struggling to cope with his feelings for the hostess. 
• Encounter (Comedy): Ex-Flame (Lead) - A womanizing charmer bumps into a former flame and her boyfriend, but refuses to turn off the charm.
• It Takes ah Village (Drama): Rafi (Supporting)- A confident, gay Guyanese-American who helps his friend navigate his own sexuality in a community plagued with outdated notions on gender norms.
• Te Tvam Asi: Shankar (Supporting) - A father and abusive husband struggling to cope with his own insecurities and frustrations, organizes a Hindu ceremony to "cleanse" the house and keep up appearances.

THEATER

• The Prisoner's Diet (Comedy): Kidnapper (Supporting) Staged reading of a short play written by Alex Edelman at the Playwrights Horizons gala with Peter Friedman and Jaquel Spivey.
• A sketch of New York: Ensemble - A sketch comedy show with a satirical take on NYC and its inhabitants.
• Go Back to Murder (Drama): Amyas Crale (Lead) - A morally complex painter who brazenly cheats on his wife in the name of art and pays the ultimate price for it.
• Lie, Cheat and Genuflect (Comedy): Billy Buckle (Lead) - A well intentioned, error-prone, devoted brother who finds himself masquerading as a nun, in an attempt to help his brother find a way to pay back a loanshark.
• What the bellhop saw (Comedy): Babu Rashad (Supporting) - An incompetent "religious extremist" on a mission to find and kill the author of "Satanic Nurses" a "blasphemous" book, he has never read.
• Confessions of a Dirty Blonde (Comedy): Joey (Supporting) - An affable, endearing butler to sex siren and living legend Lillian Lamour, who comes out of seclusion for a one night tribute at Carnegie Hall.
• Playing Doctor (Comedy): Jimmy Carmichael (Lead) - A mediocre actor who partakes in a farce orchestrated by his writer best friend, who must convince his proud parents that he is a doctor.