Media Studies Professor Applauds His New York Stage Doppelgänger
Played by Raffi Barsoumian, alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rachel Dratch.
Siva Vaidhyanathan’s best-known book is all about Google. But it was via another Silicon Valley behemoth that the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia first found out he was going to be portrayed on-stage in Privacy, which stars Daniel Radcliffe and is currently playing at New York’s Public Theater.
From a write-up by UVA media relations associate Katie McNally:
“About four months ago, I got a Facebook message from an actor friend telling me that he had just auditioned to play me in a play off Broadway,” Vaidhyanathan said.
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