For example, on Broadway, opening March 28, 1979, he was part of the original cast of A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy at Palace Theatre, New York as a photographer.
[3][4] 2002, Nayyar played an Esperanto poet ("eloquently sorrowful"[5]), guiding the main character Priscilla through Kabul in Tony Kushner's drama Journey of a Lifetime, set to run for two months in Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
[6] In 2004, he portrayed Mr. Begg "with palpable anger and sorrow"[7] in Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo's play Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom at the Culture Project, New York City, at the Studio Theatre (Washington D.C.) and at the Brava Theatre Center (San Francisco CA).
In the second season of Tales from the Darkside (1986/87), Nayyar starred as Edmund Alcott, a vampire, in the episode The Unhappy Medium.
In the Indian series Cyber Vaar – Har Screen Crime Scene (2022) for the streaming platform Voot,[13] Nayyar played in the first episode.