{"title":"Firdous Bamji","role":"Nirad Das","image":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/roundabout-theatre-company\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_880,q_auto,w_880\/v1\/Headshots\/2014-2015-Season\/Indian-Ink\/Firdous-Bamji-headshot.gif","lede":null,"content":"\r\n
FIRDOUS BAMJI (Nirad Das)<\/strong> made his professional acting debut in Columbia, South Carolina, when he was cast as Torch in Beirut by Alan Bowne at Trustus Theatre. It was directed by the man who became his mentor, the theatre\u2019s artistic director and co-founder, Jim Thigpen. Since then he has gone on to work at numerous theatre companies in New York and around the country, including the American Conservatory Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre, Lincoln Centre Theatre, Baltimore Centre Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, the Studio Theatre, Theatre For a New Audience, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Theatre Workshop, The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, the Mark Taper Forum, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He has played leading roles in world and American premier productions of plays by playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner, Eric Bogosian, Naomi Wallace and Rebecca Gilman, including the American premiere of Stoppard\u2019s Indian Ink, at ACT, directed by Carey Perloff. Bamji played Anish, opposite the late, great Jean Stapleton.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In 2007 he moved to London, England to co-write and act in a new piece of theatre with the British company, Complicite. The result was A Disappearing Number, directed by Simon McBurney, which won the Laurence Olivier Award and the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play, and the Evening Standard Award for Best Play. Over the next four years, A Disappearing Number toured Europe, Australia, India, and the United States, and finished its universally acclaimed run at the Novello Theatre in London\u2019s West End.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Firdous\u2019 television credits include \u201cLaw & Order\u201d and \u201cLaw & Order SVU\u201d and his film credits include The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Analyze That, Ashes, Justice and The War Within, for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has narrated almost twenty audio books, including The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Camille by Alexander Dumas, The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh, and The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, for which he received an Audie Award nomination. For the last four years, Firdous has been working on a novel about the first Persian Empire, called Chariot Stander: From the Shade to the Sun.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n","website":"","alt":null}