Piyush Mishra is an Indian film and theatre actor, music director, lyricist, singer, scriptwriter. He was born on 13 January 1963 in a Brahmin family in Gwalior to Pratap Kumar Sharma. He went to graduate from National School of Drama, Delhi in 1986.

Piyush Mishra started his career in Hindi theatre in Delhi. Over the next decade, he established himself as a theatre director, actor, lyricist and singer. ​

In 1996 he joined Asmita Theatre Group, and performed his popular one man shows An Evening with Piyush Mishra. He wrote the lyrics for Asmita’s popular plays. Piyush acted as Maniac in operation three star (an adaptation of Dario Fo’s play Accidental Death of an Anarchist). Piyush is also known for his performance in Swadesh Deepak’s Court Martial as suraj Singh, first with Ranjeet Kapoor (1991) and later under the direction of Arvind Gaur (1996).

Piyush Mishra made his debut as a film actor with Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se.. in 1998, he portrayed as C.B.I Investigation Officer. Though he continued to stay in Delhi to pursue theatre. His transition from playwright to screenwriter happened when he wrote the dialogues for Rajkumar Santoshi’s 2001 film The Legend of Bhagat Singh, which was inspired in part by Mishra’s critically acclaimed play on Bhagat Singh – Gagan Damama Bajyo. It won him the Zee Cine Award for Best Dialogue (2003).

Meanwhile, he moved to Mumbai in November 2002, where he went on to establish a career as a film lyricist, screenwriter and as an actor. He started writing lyrics with the film, Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar, and subsequently wrote for Black Friday, Aaja Nachle and Tashan.