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Nadia Nadarajah

Nadia Nadarajah

Deaf Sri Lankan-British actress

Nadia Nadarajah is a deaf British actress. She has labelled herself as English South Asian woman with dark skin. She uses British Sign Language.[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 and A Midsummer Night's Dream, 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 French Creole).[citation needed]

References

  1. [1]
    "Nadia Nadarajah". www.dadafest.co.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Close up (BSL Zone)".
  3. [3]
    "Parktheatre".
  4. [4]
    Globe, Shakespeare’s (28 June 2018). "Michelle Terry & Nadia Nadarajah in conversation". Medium. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  5. [5]
    "Nadia Nadarajah". Royal Court. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  6. [6]
    "Edinburgh festival 2015 review: Can I Start Again Please – devastatingly good". Guardian.
  7. [7]
    "Nadia Nadarajah on the Limping Chicken".
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