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Ruwanthie de Chickera is a Sri Lankan playwright and director whose plays have been performed in Colombo, Bangalore, Mumbai, London, Manchester, New Delhi, Manila, Tokyo, Washington and Australia. Ruwanthie de Chickera is Sri Lankan playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. De Chickera is artistic director of Stages Theatre Group, an ensemble theatre company that produces socially and politically conscious original Sri Lankan Theatre. De Chickera has a strong belief in the practice, politics and philosophy of ‘devising’ – a theatre approach of collective creativity and leadership that challenges existing structures of authorship, power-sharing and change. She is an Eisenhower Fellow and head of Research and Writing of the Arts and Cultural Policy Desk in Sri Lanka, a citizens initiative, working towards the drafting of a National Arts and Cultural Policy for Sri Lanka. She currently collaborates with British visual artist, David Cotterrell, on arts projects and policy interventions.

Ruwanthie de Chickera is the founder of the Stage Theatre Group, Sri Lanka’s most damous and renowned ensemble. Over the last 15 years she worked on more than twenty international theatre and film productions. For her first film script, Machan, she won a prize at the Venice Film Festival 2008. Apart from her work as director of theatre and film she taches at the National University for Visual and Performing Arts in Sri Lanka.