Kaizaad Kotwal

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Kaizaad Kotwal
Born
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
NationalityIndian
Occupations
  • Actor
  • producer
  • writer
  • director
Years active2003–present
ParentMahabanoo Mody-Kotwal (mother) Navroze Kotwal (father)

Kaizaad Kotwal is an Indian producer, director, actor,[1] writer and designer. He has worked on over 200 theatre and film productions. He won an Emmy Award for Art Direction in 1996.

Currently he is a professor of theatre, media studies and film at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.[2] He won the Griffin Society Award for Best Professor in 2008 and in 2007 was named one of the top professors in Ohio.[citation needed]

He is the producer and director of the Indian production of The Vagina Monologues which has been running there since 2003.[citation needed]

He co-owns a production company called Poor-Box Productions with his mother Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal. The company started in Ohio in 1996 and the Indian one was started in 1999 when they launched their production of Shirley Valentine.[citation needed]

Filmography[edit]

Year Film Role Notes
2014 Khoobsurat Pritam Chakravorty, Mili's father
2015 Phantom Pakistan ambassador
2016 Airlift Behram Poonawalla
2016 Udta Punjab
2017 Raees Mill Owner
2018 2.0 Manoj Lulla. Tamil Movie
2019 Thinkistan Visti Khodaji
2019 Fittrat Teckchand Sareen Web series released on ALTBalaji and ZEE5
2020 Malang
2021 Ray Maneckjee Web series released on Netflix
2022 Ek Villain Returns Siya's Father

References[edit]

  1. ^ Willis, John; Monush, Barry (1 June 2005). Screen world: 2004 film annual. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 193–. ISBN 978-1-55783-638-0. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  2. ^ Aamir, SM (26 November 2015). "'Theatre is my first love': Kaizaad Kotwal". The Hindu.