Biography
Vidur Kapur was nominated by MTV Network's Logo channel for a "NewNowNext" Award as "Brink of Fame:Comic". Vidur has performed at over 100 college campuses and has catapulted barriers and moved South Asians and LGBT students from confinement on the margins to the campus core. He was selected as a NY finalist by NBC's "Stand Up for Diversity" and performed in Caroline's New York Comedy Festival as part of the "Stand Up for Diversity" showcase. He was also highlighted on FOX news as, "A comedian you want to remember". He was chosen as one of the top four Asian comics in North America to perform at the world famous "Just for Laughs" Comedy Festival in Montreal in July 2006. Vidur and his stand up comedy are the subject of a short film which was shown on Steven Spielberg's "On The Lot" on FOX television. He has co-starred with Margaret Cho in MTV LOGO’s "Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack" and is currently starring in Logo's "One Night Stand Up Vol. 2". Vidur was listed by India Tribune as "One of the Top 31 Personalities of Indian Americans". His insightful writing was made available to the public in '09 with his own chapter "Reincarnated" in a book called "Out on the Edge: Amercia's Rebel Comics" by Mike Player and published by Alyson Publications. Vidur was featured in a Reuters Television piece around the world on “ Prominent South Asians in the Media”. Vidur has been seen in international media and television including, NBC, CBC in Canada, NPR, TV Asia, New Delhi TV, MTV Desi and PBS's Asian America. He has toured internationally including Canada, India, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and the Carribbean. Vidur was one of the original "Gurus of Comedy" in a show produced in 2003 along with Russell Peters and was nominated in the category of "Favourite South Asian Comedian" for the South Asian Media Awards, 2005. Vidur headlined a DVD that has recently been released called "Indian Invasion" and just completed a role in a pilot for VH1.
Vidur Kapur’s stand-up comedy is based on the social commentary of a one-man culture clash. A South Asian raised in a conservative upper middle class family in New Delhi, an overachiever with a degree from The London School of Economics and Ph.D. coursework from the University of Chicago, a misfit in a family focused on arranged marriages and social status, a chic urban trend-crazy gay fashion victim in West Hollywood and Manhattan, a corporate executive from blue chip international firms, an immigrant to the US and a person horrified at being mistaken for a terrorist in a post 9/11 America.
Instrumentation
Vidur Kapur Solo Comedian
Management: OUTmedia: info@OUTmedia.org
Discography
Pilot for VH1 reality show called "Carolines"
MTV Logo Nominee for "NewNowNext" Award as "Brink of Fame:Comic"
NBC Finalist on NBC's "Stand Up for Diversity"
FOX TV's Steven Spielberg's " On The Lot"
MTV LOGO's "Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack"
Imaginasian Radio Interview with Vidur Kapur
NPR "Feet in Two Worlds" Featuring Vidur Kapur
Reuters Television "Prominent South Asians in the Media" Interview with Mira Nair, Naveen Andrews, Vidur Kapur
New Delhi TV Vidur Kapur at Gotham Comedy Club
Chapter titled "Reincarnated" in a book "Out on the Edge: America's Rebel Comics"
Links
| http://www.vidurkapur.com |
| Vidur Kapur's website |