Hi!
My name is Mayaan, and I am a driven Sri Lankan theatre-maker who seeks to inspire both the members of my company and audiences to dream. I hope to celebrate the human condition through purposeful storytelling with various theatrical productions.
My name is Mayaan, and I am a driven Sri Lankan theatre-maker who seeks to inspire both the members of my company and audiences to dream. I hope to celebrate the human condition through purposeful storytelling with various theatrical productions.
My goal for each show has always been for audience members to walk out feeling slightly better than when they walked in—as a way of creating small positive ripples in the world through my work.
My practice has taken me globally, as I have created work and trained in Sri Lanka and England. These experiences have instilled within me a need to create spaces that promote creativity, joy, and safety.
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More About Mayaan
Mayaan is in his final year of an MFA in Theatre Directing at East 15 Acting School, University of Essex. His areas of study (so far) include Contemporary British Theatre, Improvisation and Devising, Music Theatre, and Assistant Directing.
Mayaan is the artistic director and president of the Sri Lankan theatre company Clutch Plays Theatre (established in 2020). He oversees the production and organization of CPT shows, as well as the marketing and finance aspects.
In 2021, he directed his first CPT show, Boys Play, by Jack Heifner. With CPT, he has then gone on to direct Tiny Beautiful Things (2022) by Nia Vardalos & Cheryl Strayed, 12 Incompetent Jurors (2023) by Ian McWethy, and The Amazing Lemonade Girl (2024) by James Devita.
Mayaan organizes and conducts theatre-based workshops for schools, universities, and amateur and professional practitioners in various techniques, from improvisation and devising performance tools to acting and directing practices. He has experience running school theatre departments and organizing theatrical productions, events, and competitions.
From 2017 to 2022, Mayaan directed various school shows in Sri Lanka.
For Asian International School, this included Antigone (2018) by Sophocles, Othello (2020) by William Shakespeare, and The House of Bernarda Alba (2020) by Federico García Lorca. For Royal College, this included Under the Stars (2017) by Boake/Harward House, Macbeth (2018), and Romeo and Juliet (2019) by William Shakespeare.
Mayaan began his theatre career as an actor for Royal College Colombo, first acting as a member of the Ensemble/Messenger in a production of Macbeth (2014). He then went on to play Gadshill in a production of Henry IV Part 1 (2015). He followed by playing Ralph/Hong Kong Consul in a production of Around the World in 80 Days (2016) before his final performance at Royal College, playing the titular role of Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (2016).
