Tanuja Amarasuriya
Tanuja Amarasuriya is a director, dramaturg and sound artist.
Theatre
For the National Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest
In London’s West End: as assistant and associate director, Medea at @sohoplace; and GOOD at the Harold Pinter
Other theatre includes: as director, Dark Land Light House, Check the Label, The Morpeth Carol, M32 is Also a Galaxy, The Freelance Magdalene and Buzzard at Bristol Old Vic; Julius Caesar at The Malcom X Centre; We Anchor in Hope for LAMDA; Absolute Scenes at the Marble Factory; Here Me Now and Out of Sorts at Theatre503; The Paper Man for Tobacco Factory and Soho Theatre; The Bullet and the Bass Trombone at Bristol Old Vic, The Shed at the National Theatre, and UK tour; The Dead Phone (And The Line Goes Dead) and Astronaut on UK tours; and Ocean Confessions for Sura Medura, Sri Lanka; as co-director, A Little Death at Bristol Old Vic; as assistant and associate director, Rock Follies at Chichester; You Heard Me on UK tour; Ice Road and The Stick House for Raucous (immersive theatre productions); The Orator for Theatre West; and Sam Halmarack & the Miserablites on UK and international tour
Awards
2024 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award
2017 Leverhulme Arts Scholarship from Bristol Old Vic
Tanuja Amarasuriya is also a co-founder of an independent production company, Sleepdogs, alongside writer and composer, Timothy X Atack.
She is a resident at Watershed’s Pervasive Medi a Studio.
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(Published November 2024)