Udayan Prasad is a multi-award-winning director whose earlier films include the MY SON THE FANATIC (by Hanif Kureishi and starring Om Puri and Rachel Griffiths) and BROTHERS IN TROUBLE (starring Om Puri, Angeline Ball and Pawan Malhotra) that won Udayan the Golden Alexander Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. He also directed THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF starring William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristin Stewart, and Eddie Redmayne, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released in the US by Goldwyn Films.
Television projects includes several with the British writer Simon Gray including RUNNING LATE, winner of the Gold Gate Award for Best Television Feature and two BAFTA-nominated collaborations with Alan Bennett: TALKING HEADS 2: PLAYING SANDWICHES (starring David Haig) and 102 BOULEVARD HAUSSMANN (starring Alan Bates and Janet McTeer + winner of a second Gold Gate Award).
Recent work comprises of BECOMING ELIZABETH (featuring Romola Garai, Tom Cullen, and Jessica Raine), and SELECTION DAY, an adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker prize-winning novel for Seven Stories and Netflix, on which Udayan was lead director and executive producer. He also helmed the closing episodes (including the show’s finale) of the BBC’s adaptation of THE MUSKETEERS featuring Tom Burke.
When not in production, he runs workshops on directing and screenwriting at several film schools including The London Film School, The Wajda School in Warsaw and the National Film Television and Theatre School in Łódź, Poland. He is also an advisor and mentor on various international directing and screenwriting workshops.
