Tanuja Amarasuriya
Sleepdogs
Director and dramaturg working in theatre and related forms. Occasional sound artist. Story nerd.
Projects
Breaking theatre is more fun than making theatre
Lunchtime talk, asking: what if we thought about difference in artistic rather than statistic terms?
Ocean Confessions
Site-responsive, live mixed headphone piece. Originated and prototyped in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka in 2018.I'm a director, dramaturg and occasional sound artist working in theatre and related forms. I've worked with artists and companies including: the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, English Heritage, Kaleider, Raucous, Improbable, Channel 4 Random Acts, Die Gute Fabrik, Theatre503, Sura Medura (Sri Lanka) and in London's west end. I'm also co-founder of multi-artform company, Sleepdogs, alongside writer and composer Timothy X Atack.
I'm interested in the aesthetic, experiential, transportive and transformative potential of how we tell stories. Personally, I believe that how we tell stories is at least as important as what stories we tell.
Examples of my work/thinking/research:
DELAY: a queer sci-fi heartbreaker. Premiered at Bristol Old Vic in 2025.
I was an artist fellow on the Bristol + Bath Creative R&D Expanded Performance programme, exploring tech in relation to emotional immersion. You can read about that in this series of articles: Feeling Being.
Breaking theatre is more fun that making theatre - a PM Studio lunchtime talk from deepest darkest lockdown asking: what if thought about difference in artistic, rather than statistic terms?