Gayatri Bahl

Actor

Gayatri Patel Bahl is an Indian American actress, dancer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur, originally from Alabama.

Performing for over 25 years, Gayatri most recently acted in Partner Track (Netflix) & New Amsterdam (NBC).

Other TV Credits include Mr. Robot (NBC), Vinyl (HBO), The Loudest Voice (Showtime), Law & Order SVU (NBC), and YRF’s Rishta.com (Netflix).

Indie Projects include Starch & Stay with me a Little While.

Filmmaker

The award-winning TINA, a film Gayatri Bahl wrote, directed & produced, has been to 30 film festival worldwide, winning awards at the Big Apple Film Festival (Best Short Film) and Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (Best Thriller). Learn more at tinathemovie.com.

Diner Banter, an improvised web series, directed by Gayatri Bahl & co-created by Gayatri Bahl, Melanie Chandra, Surina Jindal and Reema Sampat, is about four friends who meet up at their favorite diner to laugh and commiserate about everything—and we mean EVERYTHING. Watch it on Youtube.

Dancer

As a dancer, Gayatri has had the privilege of training under and eventually being choreographed by Saroj Khan; training in contemporary and modern dance at Terrence Lewis’ studio; and finally training with Pandit Birju Maharaj’s direct disciple, Vijayshree Chaudhary. Gayatri credits Vijayshree Ji with teaching her the finer nuances of dance and rounding out her skills like no other guru could have done.  In addition to being choreographed by Saroj Khan(Devdas), Gayatri has had the privilege of working with Longinus Fernandes (Slumdog Millionaire), and Rajeev Goswami. Her strengths as a dancer lie in her ability to not only be technically beautiful, but also expressive and engaging.

Gayatri has graced the stage of the world renowned Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theatre and NYC’s SummerStage and has been featured in Elle Magazine US, Times of India, Real Bollywood, Sa Dance Company, Filmfare Magazine and ETC Networks.

Gayatri’s desire to live an inspired life led her to drop out of Emory University for 7 years and move to Mumbai to pursue a career in Bollywood where she was producer & lead of the Hindi Film "Let's Dance". Pre-Pandemic, she ran Textured (formerly Basic Branding), a web development company and co-founding Leblum, a Techstars NYC 16′ company.