Nayanathara
Jayasinghe
Nayanathara
Jayasinghe
Actor
ABOUT
NAYANATHARA
Nayanathara is a Berlin-based actor of Sri Lankan origin. Coming from a conventional background where creative careers were not the obvious choice, her path to acting was not linear. After more than a decade in a different industry, her deliberate attempts to build the career she silently desired, became a reality with her admission to the Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin.
Being raised in Sri Lanka and having lived in five different countries, today she brings that lived experiences, maturity, cultural perspectives, and grounded intensity to her work in Berlin. She seeks roles that explore complexity and emotional truth and she reflects a strong commitment to queer-inclusive storytelling..
Currently Nayanathra is in the final year of her BA in Acting. While she's still relatively new to the field and her experience is largely limited to Catalyst-based projects, she’s actively working on building her acting career within an international creative landscape and seeking cross-cultural and globally oriented collaborations across stage and screen.
PERFORMANCE
SCREEN ACTING
THEATRE
VOICE ACTING
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
PHYSICAL & MOVEMENT BASED PERFORMANCE
SOLO THEATRE - Understudy
Current projects
Solo theatre performance -
Nayanathara is currently writing and developing a solo theatre piece, which will be showcased in March 2026, in Catalyst Theatre. The story revolves around the living situation of a local family in 1818 Ceylon under British rule. Through six different characters she expects to take audience on an intimate ride, giving an insight into her cultural roots.
Short movie -
In collaboration with a Catalyst film student, Nayanathara is about to bring a brown woman's wildest dreams, or in other words ''making best use of free will" to life. It's a story you won't be expecting from a brown woman, a story that will be told from the truth of life and philosophical music. The film is set to begin production in early March 2026.