Pittu was born and grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut where, as a high school senior, he was a finalist in the NFAA's Arts Recognition Talent Search in Drama.
[4] 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.
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.
staged concert productions Of Thee I Sing (2007, as the French ambassador); Bells Are Ringing (2010, as Sandor); It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman (2013, as Dr. Abner Sedgwick) and Girl From the North Country at the Public Theater (2018, as Reverend Marlowe).
He read Donna Tartt 's Pulitzer Prize winner The Goldfinch,[10] which received two "Audie" Awards: Best Literary Fiction and Best Male Solo Performance, 2014.