Tanuja Amarasuriya is a director, dramaturg and occasional sound artist, working in theatre and related forms. 
Winner of the 2024 RTST Sir Peter Hall Directors Award.

Director credits includes: DELAY (Bristol Old Vic), Out of Sorts (Theatre503), The Paper Man (Improbable/Tobacco Factory/Soho Theatre), Ocean Confessions (Sura Medura, Sri Lanka), Dark Land Light House (MAYK/Bristol Old Vic), The Bullet and the Bass Trombone (MAYK/Bristol Old Vic/UK tour), Check The Label (Bristol Old Vic), The Morpeth Carol (Bristol Old Vic), M32 Is Also A Galaxy (Paines Plough/Bristol Old Vic), Astronaut (Arnolfini/UK Tour), Julius Caesar (Malcolm X Centre/Bristol Old Vic Theatre School), We Anchor In Hope (LAMDA Linbury Studio), Absolute Scenes (The Marble Factory/Bristol Old Vic Theatre School).

Associate Director credits include: As associate director, she worked with Dominic Cooke on Good (Harold Pinter Theatre), Medea (@sohoplace theatre), and Rock Follies (Chichester Festival), and was the National Theatre’s staff director on Max Webster’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest.

Published essays and talks include: Wrong Kind of Asian, Wrong Kind of Work (Stages of Resistance); Breaking theatre is more fun than making theatre (Pervasive Media Studio video talk); Feeling Being (a collection of essays on performance and technology for Watershed/Bristol & Bath Creative R&D).

She is based in Bristol and is a resident at Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio, and co-founder of the multi-artform company Sleepdogs alongside writer/composer Timothy X Atack.