Natesha Somasundaram Natesha Somasundaram i(10039549 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Sri Lankan
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BiographyHistory

Melbourne-based playwright. Natesha Somasundaram's parents arrived in Australia in the late 1980s to escape Sri Lanka's civil war, and she was raised in Dandenong.

Graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in 2017, Somasundaram was resident playwright at the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2018. She has also worked on season two of Get Krack!n.

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Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Rock Island Mysteries ( dir. Evan Clarry et. al. )agent Australia : FremantleMedia Australia , 2022-2023 24477519 2022 series - publisher film/TV children's Fourteen-year-old Taylor and her friends explore the mysterious and beautiful Rock Island.
2022 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Children's Television Series
form y separately published work icon Heartbreak High ( dir. Gracie Otto et. al. )agent Australia : FremantleMedia Australia NewBe Netflix , 2022 23518505 2022 series - publisher film/TV

'A discovery makes AMERIE an instant pariah at Hartley High, and causes a mysterious and very public rift with her ride-or-die HARPER. With her new friends - outsiders QUINNI and DARREN - AMERIE must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.'

Source: Netflix.

2023 winner The International Emmy Awards Kids: Live Action
2022 nominated Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
2022 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Television Drama Series
form y separately published work icon The Unlisted ( dir. Justine Flynn et. al. )agent Australia : Aquarius Films , 2019 15285008 2019 series - publisher film/TV children's science fiction

'Twelve-year-old identical twins Dru and Kal are just like any other Australian boys living in Sydney in their first year of high school. Their parents are second generation Indian Australians and have embraced everything the country has to offer. But after a government-sponsored dental check-up, in which Kal is seen twice so that his twin, who has a crippling fear of dentists, can avoid another fainting episode, the Australian dream starts to unravel. The boys discover that a mysterious electronic device has been inserted into Kal twice, while Dru remains device-free and, therefore, undetectable. For what sinister ends is a democratic government secretly tracking and manipulating Australia’s youth?'

Source: Screen NSW (http://www.screen.nsw.gov.au/project/the-unlisted) (Sighted: 22/11/2018)

2019 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Children's Television Series
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