Manu Narayan

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Manu Narayan (born August 16, 1973) is an American actor, film producer, singer, songwriter, composer and saxophonist.

He serves as a Trustee on the board of Carnegie Mellon University, his alma mater.Narayan was hailed as a "promising young star...a compelling actor and outstanding singer who can light up a stage with sheer force of personality," by UPI in 2004 when he made his Broadway debut in the Andrew Lloyd Webber, A.R.

Rahman musical Bombay Dreams, originating the role of the "hero" Akaash.

Narayan co-starred as Rajneesh alongside Mike Myers in the Paramount Pictures' feature film The Love Guru (2008).

Early life

Narayan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He is an accomplished classical saxophonist in the western and South Indian Carnatic styles. When Narayan was a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, he won the Concerto Competition and performed the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto with orchestra at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh. Narayan studied the Carnatic saxophone in Mangalore, India with Sri Kadri Gopalnath, and played on All India Radio as the winner of the All India Radio music competition of Mangalore.

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Career

Narayan made his Broadway debut in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/A.R. competition. The role he is best known for, the "hero" Akaash, was born in 2004, and he received a New York Drama League nomination. In the original cast of Bartlett Sher's 2018 revival of My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center Theatre, Narayan costarred as Zoltan Karpathy. He appeared as Robbie Patel in Gettin' The Band Back Together at the Belasco Theatre that same year. Charlie Kringas appeared in the 2019 Roundabout Theater/Fiasco Off Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along and the role of Uncle Ernie in The Who's Tommy revival. He appeared in Company on Broadway in 2021, replacing Kyle Dean Massey, who left early in the previews.

Richard Roma in La Jolla Playhouse's critically acclaimed revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, receiving critical praise for his work as well as a nomination for the San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award in 2012.

In Sudhish Kamath's Good Night Good Morning, which he co-produced, and Shailja Gupta's Walkaway, Narayan appeared as the romantic lead. He co-starred with Lucy Hale in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song and was included in M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. In addition, he co-starred with Russell Peters in Quinterland Crisis, which was the first time on showtime.

In 2003, Narayan was invited to perform at a small state dinner for President George W. Bush's first official visit to the United Kingdom. Narayan performed for and met Queen Elizabeth II, the Royal Family, and President George W. Bush and Colin Powell. He performed in then Senator John Kerry's presidential bid, which was funded by Senator Hillary Clinton, as well as elsewhere with Cyndi Lauper, The Band's Garth Hudson, and Martha Wainwright.

Narayan has performed and recorded original and cover songs for film soundtracks, including The Love Guru, A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, Good Night, Good Morning and Walkaway. He co-wrote and recorded the single Help Me to Find for Madhur Jaffrey's film Hiding Divya. Narayan has collaborated with Grammy winner Frank London, most recently recording and performing for his Soundbrush Records' klezmer concept album, A Night in the Old Marketplace. Narayan, Europe's leading vocalist, performed the album's live version throughout Europe and North America. He is currently working on a new klezmer/Desi partnership called SHARABI with London and master percussionist Deep Singh, who performed with in Bombay Dreams, and master percussionist Deep Singh, who performed with him in Bombay Dreams. SHARABI performed at the 2014 Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków, Poland.

Narayan is also a lead singer of the group D A R U N A M in the Czech Republic, alongside Radovan Jovicevic, a founding member of Grupa Zana. The band brings together the sounds and rhythms of three continents: America, India, and Serbia. For the 2007 film And Then Came Love starring Vanessa Williams, he recorded with D A R U N A M bandmate Radovan Jovicevic. The EP's Beautiful Must Die, 2007 by Narayan and Jovicevic, as well as the title track's video starring Janina Gavankar. In 2010, they released The Last Angel on Earth, a Canadian clarinetist Milan Milosevic's album of Electronic Lounge/World Gypsy music, which was broadcast live on CBC national radio in Canada. D A R U N A M is currently working on a new theatre piece with playwright Aditi Kapil. Their untitled work was accepted into the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Summer Residency Lab in 2014.

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