Pittu's theater work includes plays and musicals, and he has received two Tony Award nominations. He was nominated for the 2007 Best Featured Actor in a Musical for playing Bertolt Brecht in Harold Prince's LoveMusik and for the 2008 Best Featured Actor in a Play for his multiple-role turn in the Mark Twain comedy Is He Dead? adapted by David Ives and directed by Michael Blakemore. He received the Daryl Roth 2010 Creative Spirit Award. He received the 2009 St. Clair Bayfield Award for his performance in Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theatre in 2009, directed by Daniel Sullivan. Also under Sullivan's direction, he played Paul Wolfowitz and others, in David Hare's Stuff Happens in 2006 at the Public Theater, which received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble. He wrote and starred in What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, a musical satire about a luckless, eternally "up-and-coming" composer-lyricist. Pittu also wrote the lyrics, with music by Randy Redd to What's That Smell, which premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in September 2008. The play with music received two Lucille Lortel Award nominations including one for Best Off-Broadway Musical, and was included in both the Entertainment Weekly and The New York TimesTop 10 Best Lists in Theater 2008. Other notable theater work: David Ives' The Heir Apparent ; Bill Cain's Equivocation directed by Garry Hynes; Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia ; Harold Pinter's Celebration and The Room ; and Stephen Sondheim 's Company, part of the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration. His acclaimed performance as Leo Frank in the National Tour of Jason Robert Brown's Parade, directed by Harold Prince, earned him the 2001 National Broadway Award. He appeared in the Encores! staged concert productions Of Thee I Sing ; Bells Are Ringing ; and It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman. His film credits include True Story, King Kong and Men in Black 3. For television he has appeared in House of Cards, PBS' Mercy Street, The Following, The Knick, Damages, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Fringe, Sex and the City, as well as numerous appearances on all of the Law & Order series. He is a prolific, award-winning narrator of audio books. He read Donna Tartt 's Pulitzer Prize winner The Goldfinch, which received two "Audie" Awards: Best Literary Fiction and Best Male Solo Performance, 2014. He lives in New York City.
