In 2009, Rice Boy was staged by the Stratford Festival, the festival's first-ever production of a play about the immigrant experience."Beautiful memory play shows its local roots". Waterloo Region Record, August 24, 2009. At that time, Kuruvilla was working in marketing/promotions at Wilfrid Laurier University."Setting the scene". Laurier Campus, Summer 2009. Since then, he has become a television writer and college professor.
