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Niroshini Thambar

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Niroshini is a musician, composer and sound designer based in Scotland. She works across theatre, audio-visual installation, film and participatory arts projects.

 

Theatre credits include: Snake in the Grass (Dundee Rep), So Young (Traverse Theatre/Citizens Theatre/Raw Material), The Brenda Line (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) Sho and the Demons of the Deep (Independent Arts Projects/National Theatre of Scotland), Cyprus Avenue (Tron Theatre),  Jinnistan (Play Pie Pint), Little Women (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Watford Palace Theatre/Home MCR), Scent of Roses (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), The Bookies (Dundee Rep), Ghosts (National Theatre of Scotland), Hindu Times (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh/Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Naked Productions), Revolution Days (Bijli Productions) The Tempest (Tron Theatre), Helping Hands (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Sound Stage), Gagarin Way (Dundee Rep).

Further credits include Associate Director for the audio-led drama Niqabi Ninja (Independent Arts Projects /EIF) and Series Composer for United Kingdoms (Naked Productions/BBC Radio 4).

Niroshini has had artist residencies/ commissions with National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh Mela, Magnetic North Theatre, Drake Music Scotland supported by the PRS Foundation for Music, and Push The Boat Out – Edinburgh’s International Poetry Festival. Her work has featured in productions at the Edinburgh International Festival, Shubbak Contemporary Arts Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

Alongside her freelance work, Niroshini is pursuing a part-time practice-based PhD in Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland & University of St Andrews with interdisciplinary research led by music and sound composition.