Prasad Paul Duffy is a visionary playwright, filmmaker, author and spiritual teacher. A graduate of NYU Film and Drama School in 1981, he wrote and directed his first short film, "Me and Max, about a child and his pet parakeet, which he sold to HBO.
A few years later he wrote and directed "St. Mark's Place" (1985), an immersive play about homeless people in the East Village of New York City. He then directed staged readings of "Bullpen" by Dennis Watlington starring Gian Carlo Esposito and Wendell Pierce, “When the Chickens Come Home to Roost," a play about Malcom X by Laurence Holder, “Threshold” a fictional play about Jim Morrison and The Doors, starring Sally Kirkland, ”Whores of Heaven," based on The Mandrake" by Machiavelli, "Tea and Sympathy" by Robert Anderson, ”And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" by Paul Zindel.
Prasad has also written the plays "Joe's Paradise," a female-empowerment comedy about pole dancers, and “Strokes of Genius,” about the abstract expressionists, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem and Elaine DeKooning in 1951, when they were still struggling artists. Most recently, he wrote and directed "REVOLUTIONARY," an acoustic rock musical that is prophetic about what’s happening today in the world, as part of the 10th Anniversary Dream Up Festival at Theater For The New City, Off Broadway, in New York City.
Prasad has also written a dozen feature-length screenplays in various states of development in Hollywood. He wrote and directed the short films "Desperate Hippies" (2005) a stoner comedy, and "Back from Iraq" (2008), about a wounded soldier in a VA hospital, and the TV pilot "Deprogrammed" (2016), a comedy about a rehab for religious fanatics starring William McNamara and Angelica Page. Prasad is also the author of the non-fiction books “Dancing As The Infinite” (2002) and “You Are Love” (2020)
