Shakthi Shakthidharan
Shakthi Shakthidharan is an Australian storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. His plays Counting and Cracking, The Jungle and the Sea and The Wrong Gods have won critical, commercial and community acclaim and toured extensively. Gather Up Your World In One Long Breath, with Powerhouse Publishing, is his debut book, and will be accompanied by a major companion artwork with the Powerhouse Museum.
Shakthi has a feature film, plays, TV series and multi-disciplinary works in development. He’s the Director of Kurinji, was previously Director of Co-Curious, and was Founder and Artistic Director of CuriousWorks from 2003-2018.
Shakthi is a Creative Australia and Sidney Myer Fellow, and a recipient of the Phillip Parsons and Kirk Robson awards. He lives in the Blue Mountains.