Vishal Vaidya

Vishal grew up in Silicon Valley. He attended The Harker School where he enjoyed playing French horn for the Harker Orchestra and participating in football and soccer as well as drama. Vishal is also an alumnus of the Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose, where he studied vocal music. He was cast by Jeffrey Draper in Harker Conservatory plays as Laertes in Hamlet, as the eponymous Anonymous in the play Anonymous, and as Lysander in A MIdsummer Night's Dream.

He was selected to audition for Family Party by Pari Mathur, who saw Vishal and some other student actors when he attended one of The Harker School plays. Vishal loves acting, singing, touring with his French horn and spending time with his family and friends. He lives in San Jose, and is spending a year tutoring students in academic subjects, teaching music, traveling, and studying and performing vocal and instrumental music.

In fall of 2016, he will attend college in Connecticut, where he plans to study economics, physics, music, and history.