VIDYA RAJAN

An award-winning multidisciplinary artist, Vidya Rajan works in writing
for stage and screen, contemporary performance, comedy and interactive
media. She is a graduate of the VCA and a former writer-in-residence at the
Malthouse. Vidya’s practice is deeply interested in play, speculative fiction,
colonial legacies and emergent technology; and her work is often described as
contemporary, inventive and sharply hilarious. Her work has been programmed
by spaces like Arts House, Now or Never, Sydney Festival, Darwin Festival,
the Blue Room, Griffin, Malthouse and Belvoir; and she has acted in and
written for shows on ABC, Netflix and SBS, amongst others. Recently, her
projects have been shortlisted for the International New Media Prize, the
Freeplay game awards, and acquired by ACMI, while her scriptwriting both
won (The Feed SBS—Comedy Writing) and was nominated for (Looking for
Alibrandi—Best Stage Adaptation) awards at the AWGIEs.