Shiva Kumar

Shiva Kumar is an award-winning director and editor, actor and writer. He has appeared on the ABC show, Quantico as Omar Sial, head of Pakistani Intelligence, on Madam Secretary as Ghayyur Wadeyla, Prime Minister of Pakistan, on Law & Order SVU as Niraj Patel, Food Network Producer and a number of commercials and industrials for The United Nations, Etrade, PNC Bank, PWC, Northwell Health and many more. Through his production company, Silver Arc, Shiva has worked in documentary, broadcast and commercial filmmaking for over 25 years. His programs have been seen on PBS, The Disney Channel, BBC, Israeli Cable, Canal Plus (France), RAI (Italy), NHK (Japan) and Doordarshan (India). In collaboration with his production partner, Joshua Greene, Shiva's films for PBS include "Witness: Voices from the Holocaust, "Hitler's Courts: Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi Germany" and "Memory After Belsen and several animated children's specials. Recently Shiva completed writing a science fiction/fant