Vishal Vaidya
Acting
Biography
Vishal grew up in Silicon Valley. He attended The Harker School where he enjoyed playing French horn for the Harker Orchestra and participating in football and soccer as well as drama. Vishal is also an alumnus of the Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose, where he studied vocal music. He was cast by Jeffrey Draper in Harker Conservatory plays as Laertes in Hamlet, as the eponymous Anonymous in the play Anonymous, and as Lysander in A MIdsummer Night's Dream. He was selected to audition for Family Party by Pari Mathur, who saw Vishal and some other student actors when he attended one of The Harker School plays. Vishal loves acting, singing, touring with his French horn and spending time with his family and friends. He lives in San Jose, and is spending a year tutoring students in academic subjects, teaching music, traveling, and studying and performing vocal and instrumental music. In fall of 2016, he will attend college in Connecticut, where he plans to study economics, physics, music, and history.
Known For
Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.
Merrily We Roll Along
At what point does the pursuit of the American Dream become an empty enterprise? Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Road Show is a larger-than-life account of two brothers—schemer Wilson Mizner and his more thoughtful sibling Addison —who are fueled by a modest inheritance to stake their claim on a piece of the world.
Road Show
High school senior, Nick gets forced by his parents to attend a boring family party instead of letting him to go a local summer concert with his baseball buddies. He meets a group of teens—including a girl named Arti—who are all stuck at the party too. They soon realize they all have tickets to the same local concert and hash out a plan to sneak out. Their scheme falls apart when they’re met with another jealous childhood friend, a missing diamond necklace and a small religious ceremony put on by the adults. Can they find a way out or is this family party the end of Nick’s night?