Nadia Nadarajah
Nadia Nadarajah is a deaf Sri Lankan-British actress.[1]
Biography[]
Nadarajah attended Mary Hare Grammar School. At 21 she moved to Australia, where she joined the committee of the SAAD (South-Australian Association of the Deaf) and campaigned on several issues. She worked as a teacher of the Deaf.[2]
She trained as an actress at the International Visual Theatre in Paris in physical and bilingual acting. After spending three years teaching Sign Language on Reunion Island, she returned to the UK.[1] She has appeared in Deafinitely Theatre productions including Shakespearean plays such as Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet, and other plays like Grounded.[3][4][5]
Other credits include Can I start again Please,[6] Tanika’s Journey and A Christmas Carol.[7]
Nadarajah is fluent in five sign languages (British, French, Australian, American and Reunion).
References[]
- ^ a b "Nadia Nadarajah". www.dadafest.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ^ "Close up (BSL Zone)".
- ^ "Parktheatre".
- ^ Globe, Shakespeare’s (2018-06-28). "Michelle Terry & Nadia Nadarajah in conversation". Medium. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ^ "Nadia Nadarajah". Royal Court. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ^ "Edinburgh festival 2015 review: Can I Start Again Please – devastatingly good". Guardian.
- ^ "Nadia Nadarajah on the Limping Chicken".
External links[]
- Living people
- Deaf people from England
- BSL users
- 21st-century English actresses
- English people of Sri Lankan descent
- Australian people of Sri Lankan descent