Prabhakar Prasad
- Actor
- Producer
Prabhakar Prasad was born in a small town called Barh in Bihar, India. For his early education, he went to a traditional Hindu school where he learned the ancient scriptures along with modern science in Sanskrit and Hindi languages. From an early age, he loved to be in leading roles, he was voted the captain of the school and the Cricket team in middle school. The only supporting role he played during his school years was in a mythological play where he had only one word for which he had to rehearse for months and travel eight hours to deliver. This was the seed that was going to grow into a plant 20 years later in Hollywood.
During these 20 years, he struggled to find himself between academics and creative freedom. He fulfilled his middle-class uneducated parents' wish to earn college degrees, not one but two, a computer science engineering from Indore, India, and an MBA from Texas, USA. After his engineering, he joined corporate India but left the world of computers for the world of fashion, and modeling. After two years of a successful modeling career doing runway, commercials, and prints he decided to follow his high school girlfriend to the US. He did not get his girlfriend but did manage to get an MBA degree with a six-figure salary job in corporate America and thus began his American dream. The price that he had to pay for living in the fast lane was a heart attack (a near-death experience) in 2015. Instead of slowing down he decided to make the most of his new life and moved to Hollywood to resume his childhood dream, to become a lead actor who has more than one word to deliver.
He spent the next four years training with the best teachers in the industry Aaron Speiser, Shannon Sturges, Kathlyn Adams, Lesly Kahn, Margie Haber, Joel Gold (Speech, accent), and UCB (improv). The hard work and discipline paid off, and he got signed by one of the top Agencies in the country and auditioned for leading roles in all the major studios in Hollywood. Just when he was being considered for a series regular role on a big show he had a heart-break in early 2020 which he found more painful than the heart attack. His mental health was completely shaken, and he decided to leave everything in search of inner peace and happiness. He turned to an ancient scripture called Bhagavad Gita that he was taught in school and found that it's the mind that suffers and we are neither the body nor the mind. Now desperate to find the answer to "Who am I?" he started looking for a teacher. The old saying "when the student is ready the teacher appears" came true, and he soon met a teacher who introduced him to his Guru and the teachings of Vedas and other Self-realized masters.
He spent the next three years connecting back to his roots, studying and practicing the ancient teachings with his teacher, learning Indian classical music, building global communities, and a tiny cabin in the woods of Topanga, Los Angeles. He has been sharing some of his experiences and learning from his journey in a podcast and a YouTube channel under the name "Journey to the Self." He is also writing two books with the intention to turn them into screenplays and developing a comedy series. Now he intends to combine all of his acting training and life experiences with the ancient wisdom to help humans and their characters, including himself, on their journey to the Self.
During these 20 years, he struggled to find himself between academics and creative freedom. He fulfilled his middle-class uneducated parents' wish to earn college degrees, not one but two, a computer science engineering from Indore, India, and an MBA from Texas, USA. After his engineering, he joined corporate India but left the world of computers for the world of fashion, and modeling. After two years of a successful modeling career doing runway, commercials, and prints he decided to follow his high school girlfriend to the US. He did not get his girlfriend but did manage to get an MBA degree with a six-figure salary job in corporate America and thus began his American dream. The price that he had to pay for living in the fast lane was a heart attack (a near-death experience) in 2015. Instead of slowing down he decided to make the most of his new life and moved to Hollywood to resume his childhood dream, to become a lead actor who has more than one word to deliver.
He spent the next four years training with the best teachers in the industry Aaron Speiser, Shannon Sturges, Kathlyn Adams, Lesly Kahn, Margie Haber, Joel Gold (Speech, accent), and UCB (improv). The hard work and discipline paid off, and he got signed by one of the top Agencies in the country and auditioned for leading roles in all the major studios in Hollywood. Just when he was being considered for a series regular role on a big show he had a heart-break in early 2020 which he found more painful than the heart attack. His mental health was completely shaken, and he decided to leave everything in search of inner peace and happiness. He turned to an ancient scripture called Bhagavad Gita that he was taught in school and found that it's the mind that suffers and we are neither the body nor the mind. Now desperate to find the answer to "Who am I?" he started looking for a teacher. The old saying "when the student is ready the teacher appears" came true, and he soon met a teacher who introduced him to his Guru and the teachings of Vedas and other Self-realized masters.
He spent the next three years connecting back to his roots, studying and practicing the ancient teachings with his teacher, learning Indian classical music, building global communities, and a tiny cabin in the woods of Topanga, Los Angeles. He has been sharing some of his experiences and learning from his journey in a podcast and a YouTube channel under the name "Journey to the Self." He is also writing two books with the intention to turn them into screenplays and developing a comedy series. Now he intends to combine all of his acting training and life experiences with the ancient wisdom to help humans and their characters, including himself, on their journey to the Self.