artist profile

Prasanna Puwanarajah

THEATRE

Having been on the shortlist for the JMK Award in 2008 and 2009, Prasanna was Runner-Up for the JMK Award Ian Ritchie Foundation Bursary for 2011.

2010 THE HANDMAIDEN, THE NIGHT & THE COCONUT MILK Laura Murray Whitby Ovation Theatre Awards  
2010 MICroscope (Riz Ahmed) Fabric/Glastonbury/Latitude Festival  
2010 THE WAGES OF THIN (Trevor Griffiths) Old Red Lion Theatre This was nominated for 5 OffWestEnd.com Awards including Best Production and for the 2010 Whatsonstage Best Off-West End Production  
2009 ON THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO (Anton Chekov) New End Theatre, Hampstead  
2009 SOMETHING I WROTE IN A HURRY (Nick Gill) Tabard Theatre This won the Best Production Award in the Lost Theatre 5-Minute Festival  
2004 ALL MY SONS (Arthur Miller) Oxford Playhouse  
2003 COPENHAGEN Michael Frayn Old Fire Station, Oxford  
2002 JOURNEY’S END R. C. Sherriff Old Fire Station, Oxford  

REHEARSED READINGS

2008 THINK GLOBAL, FUCK LOCAL (Stella Feehily) National Youth Theatre  

WRITING FOR THEATRE

2011 NIGHTWATCHMAN (Part of the Double Features Season   The Paintframe, National Theatre  

FILM

2011 THE HALF-LIGHT 35mm/RED One (13 minutes) Red Films/59 Productions  
2009 BACK SEAT HD (5 minutes) Fully Operational Films  
2009 DEEPLY RED One (7 minutes) Fully Operational Films  
2009 JOINING US NOW RED One/HD (20 minutes) Fully Operational Films  
2008 CLAMP & GRIND 16mm (8 minutes) Congo Red Films Clamp & Grind was winner of the Grand Prix at the End of the Pier International Film Festival 2009 and was also Official Selection at seven further Film Festivals