Purva Bedi Stoler

Purva Bedi is a multi-lingual actress of film, television and stage and a deviser of new work. A 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for her performance in Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), Purva is an Associate Artist and a Board Member of Target Margin Theater and a member of the Actors Center Workshop Company. Select New York theater credits include Wives (Playwrights Horizons), Passage (Soho Rep), India Pale Ale (Manhattan Theater Club), An Ordinary Muslim (New York Theatre Workshop), Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project), The Idiot (Here Arts Center), Veil’d (Women’s Project) and East is East (Manhattan Theater Club & New Group). Film credits include The Assistant, The Surrogate, Sully, Equity, A Walk Among The Tombstones, The Adjustment Bureau, Kumare, Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn, Green Card Fever, The Emperor’s Club and American Desi. TV credits include “One Of Us Is Lying,” “Billions,” “High Maintenance,” “She’s Gotta Have It Too,” “Madam Secretary,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Nurse Jackie,” “The Blacklist,” “The Good Wife,” “Gossip Girl,” “The Drew Carey Show” and “The West Wing.” Purva is the co-creator and stars in the comedy series “Shrinkage” (Amazon Prime & Vimeo). Purva has taught acting at The Prep, Anthony Meindl Actors Studio and privately. She attended Williams College, The Public Theater Shakespeare Lab, and The British American Drama Academy. Purva lives in New York City with her husband, 2 small humans, and 2 large cats.