Author: Sanjay

Managing Director of Shunya Theatre

Auditions for Fluid Productions

Here’s the announcement:

Fluid Productions will be hosting auditions for actors for the 2nd Annual Houston Talent Showcase! We’ve partnered with Naach Houston and Masala Radio to bring the best and most talented actors to the forefront of our community and present the finalists in a showcase that will ultimately give the winner a scholarship to work on film and television with Fluid Productions.
Auditions are being held during the month of July but are being scheduled privately so you can show us what YOU’ve got!
Please contact Moon Mehmood at moonmehmood8@gmail.com OR
Sunita Dharani at sunita.a.dharani@gmail.com to schedule an audition time.
Actors : Please prepare a 30 second monologue from any film or play and be prepared to share that with us. We might give you a situation and ask you to improv, be prepared for that as well.
We will have 4 finalists who will each have the opportunity to make short films with Fluid Productions for the Showcase, which will be Friday September 06.
We hope to see YOU audition for the Houston Talent Showcase!

John Kaiser in Night of the Iguana

John KaiserJohn Kaiser, a veteran Houston actor, will be playing the part of G.H. Hardy in Shunya’s next production, “Partition.”  Be sure to catch him on stage at Theatre Southwest in Tennessee Williams’ “Night of the Iguana.” 

As a floorist and performer, his credits include The House of Blue Leaves at Theatre Southwest; Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at The Country Playhouse; Arcadia and Watch on the Rhine at Main Street Theatre; The Grand Manner and Me, Myself & I with Edge Theatre; and The Merry Widow at Houston Grand Opera. He has voiced many Japanese anime characters, in such recent videos as Intrigue in the Bakumatsu, The Book of Bantorra, and Night Raid 1931. For Sight into Sound radio, he does a weekly show reading National Geographic for the blind.

Taher Lokhandwala making his Houston debut!

Taher Lokhandwala headshotTaher Lokhandwala will be playing the part of Ramanujan in Shunya’s upcoming production “Partition” by Ira Hauptman.  He will also be making his Houston debut in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” which opens April 17th at the University of St. Thomas.  For more details on the show, click Here!

Taher is a recent transplant to the wonderful city of Houston from Texas A&M University in College Station. In his time at TAMU, Taher has been seen in numerous productions put on by the Department of Performance Studies. Most recently he appeared as Orlando in Maria Irene Fornes’ play, The Conduct of Life. His other notable acting credits include Demetrius in A Midsummer Nights’ Dream, Matt the Mint in A Beggar’s Opera and Dr. Boyle in Prelude to a Kiss.

Film Casting Call

Roshan Murthy is a graduate student at UT Austin and is looking to cast the following roles in his thesis film. Please email him if you are interested. His email address is rmurthy2@gmail.com.

Yaksha Bhatt

Shunya Theatre

 MOTHER

(Female. South Asian. Age Range mid-late 30’s) Stricken with acute myelogenous leukemia in her mid-thirties, she struggles to go through treatment while still being able to care for her six year old child before eventually succumbing to the disease.

PROTAGONIST AS A YOUNG BOY

(Male. South Asian. 5-9 years old) A fascination with technology and biology due to his mother’s illness lead him to double major in biology and electrical engineering. The protagonist ends up working as a bioengineer for GE in Milwaukee when he stumbles upon a way to possibly bring back his mother using pre-existing data.