tamil periasamy
SAG-AFTRA | AEA
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2025 Highlights
One-Man Show Debut
Portrayed Edgar Allan Poe in a 60-minute world premiere solo play about his final night alive. This unique story weaves his stories and poems into an exploration about what happens when multiple mental traumas go unchecked.
Received very positive critical reviews and demand and offers to perform this piece at other festivals.
See finalhaunting.com for more info.
Recurring role on a popular TV series
(Episodes premiering later this year)
Portrayed a strong and emotional character involved in the primary story arc of the first half of the season.
A recurring guest star role spanning 4 episodes in one of the most watched and highest acclaimed series of a major TV network.
World Premiere Play
Portrayed Dr. Krishnan, an intelligent yet aloof math professor who also enjoys golf a bit too much, in Damon Chua's Quixotic Professor Qiu -- a world premiere satirical play about the China Initiative.
Performed at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia and directed by Chongren Fan, the Artistic Director of the Obie-winning Yangtze Rep in NYC.
About
Tamil is a versatile actor with over 100 credits combined from on-stage and on-screen projects. He is a proud member of both Actors Equity Association (AEA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA).
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ON STAGE he has appeared in a principal role off-Broadway and several Broadway new play workshops, working with the likes of Rajiv Joseph and F Murray Abraham. He's also performed in a Broadway-bound play led by Tony Award-winning producers.
He's performed in dozens of plays regionally, ranging in roles from Othello and Tamburlaine the Great to Mr. Darcy and Stanley Kowalski to contemporary characters like Dr. Krishnan in Quixotic Professor Qiu and Richard in The Humans.
Recently he was cast as America's most famous writer Edgar Allan Poe in a one-man show about Poe's mental traumas; his performances were highly praised (see reviews and quotes here).
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ON SCREEN he's appeared in numerous network and streaming TV shows and movies. Most famously, he was in the Emmy Award-winning limited-series Dopesick (Hulu) as the only character in the entire show to say the title of the show. He also plays the director of a hit reality TV show in the popular movie Zoey 102 (Paramount+).
He's had scenes opposite Chris Meloni, Peter Sarsgaard, Dylan McDermott, Melanie Zanetti, Thomas Lennon, Shantel VanSanten, John Hoogenakker, Jamie Lynn-Spears, and Theo Rossi to name a few.
Recently he booked and shot a recurring guest star role on a major network that will premiere later this year.
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Check out this map of all the locations where he has worked in his career so far.
Theatre
"[Tamil is] the pre-eminent Shakespearean and Renaissance actor of South Asian descent in this country."
Bob Mason, Casting Director for Chicago Shakespeare
"... two of the hardest things to portray on stage are genuine fear and madness. Both are deftly portrayed by Tamil [as Edgar Allan Poe]."
Daniel Guyton, Executive Director of Atlanta Dramatists Guild
Film & TV
"You carry the weight of the show when you say 'dopesick' -- and there's a reason why you're the only one [in the entire series] who says it."
Barry Levinson, Academy Award winning Director & Director on the Emmy Award-winning series DOPESICK (Hulu)
"Only a theatre actor of [Tamil's] caliber could tackle the demands of this role."
Erica Arvold, Artios Award winning Casting Director
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