About the Work
KUNAL PRASAD
Theater Artist • Poet • Educator
Kunal is a Theater Artist and Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Fellow. He trained on 'Wizard of Oz' at American Conservatory Theater and has directed workshops and residencies at The Magic Theatre, Bay View Opera House, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and A.C.T. His directing credits include 'Metamorphoses,' by Mary Zimmerman at Cal State University East Bay. Upcoming, Kunal will direct Silicon Valley Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' and New Conservatory Theater's 'A Nice Indian Boy.' As an Actor, Kunal is featured in the indie film 'Gone in the Night,' starring Winona Ryder, appeared in 'Mycelium' at SF Playground, and other credits include: 'Wives,' (Aurora Theatre Company) 'A Thousand Splendid Suns,' (A.C.T.) 'Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,' (SF Curran) and 'Hedda Gabler,' (The Cutting Ball Theater.)
“I help people fully embody their own words—whether that's plays, their own poetry, or improvised scenes. I work at the intersection of performance, writing, and transformation.”
I create spaces where people learn to fully inhabit their own truth—through Shakespeare's language, through improvisation, through their own poetry, through performance that transforms both actor and witness.
My work is grounded in a simple belief: we are all large enough to hold what we need to hold. The question is whether we're willing to be fully present, to adapt and create with what's available, to dive deep enough and return bearing what we've found there—alive, embodied, undeniable.
Whether I'm acting in film and theater, teaching Shakespeare workshops, performing my own poetry, teaching improvisation, or guiding writers to inhabit their words like actors, I'm doing the same thing: facilitating transformation through embodied presence.
This is work that asks you to become present enough, brave enough, and large enough to let your real voice come through.
I’m a California kid and a child of immigrants from the Fiji Islands. His ancestors were from India and came to Fiji during the British Raj. His creative spirit springs from the colors, stories, music, and beauty from California, Fiji and India.