Nayanathara
Jayasinghe
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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
UPCOMING PROJECTS
UPCOMING PROJECTS
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Safe Space (Short Film – In Pre-Production)
Currently collaborating with Catalyst film students on Safe Space, a satirical dystopian tech-thriller exploring themes of AI, surveillance, and control in a near-future world. Nayanathara will be playing the role of Sarah Malik. Production and filming are scheduled to take place in mid-June 2026.
RECENT PROJECTS
RECENT PROJECTS
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A Cuppa Ceylon Tea (Original Solo Theatre Performance)
One of Nayanathara’s final-year projects at Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin. A Cuppa Ceylon Tea is an original solo theatre work written and performed by her. Blending historical inspiration, fictional storytelling, Sri Lankan cultural elements, music, comedy, and emotional storytelling, the piece explores themes of colonialism, identity, displacement, family, and belonging. Developed through research, rehearsal, and collaboration with mentors, the performance received highly positive feedback for its originality, emotional depth, humour, and immersive cultural atmosphere. The project is currently being developed for future presentations and intercultural theatre festivals across Europe.
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