Vishakan Jeyakumar

Born in Sri Lanka, raised in New Zealand and trained in New York City. BA(Hons) from the University of Auckland and an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of Arts.

CREDITS

Arranged Marriage
– (one-act play) produced in the Festival of New Works (2002), Goldberg Theatre, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
– published by One Act Play Depot (www.oneactplays.net)

Amritsar 
– (full-length play) winner of the Goldberg Award for Playwriting (2002)
– staged reading in the Goldberg Theatre (March 2003)

Broke
– (full-length play) produced in the Festival of New Works (April 2003), Goldberg Theatre, Tisch.
– produced as part of the Performing Ethnicity International Conference and Arts Festival (by Desipina Productions and Ma-Yi Theatre Company) at Club LaMama, New York City (October 21-24, 2004)
– produced at the HERE Arts Center, NYC (November 10-21, 2004)

‘lac
– (monologue) published in the anthology Monologues for Men by Men – Volume 2, edited by Michael Wright and Gary Garrison (Heinemann Press, 2003)

Raj Against The Machine
– (ten-minute play) produced by Desipina Productions in an evening of short plays at the Tenement Museum Theatre, NYC (April 1-19, 2004)
– produced by Desipina Productions at Center Stage, NYC (2009)

Jaffna Mangoes
– (ten-minute play) produced by Desipina Productions in an evening of short plays at the Kraine Theater, NYC (March 30-April 23rd 2006)

Café Ceilao
– (ten-minute play) produced by Desipina Productions in an evening of short plays at the Abrons Art Center, NYC (March 29-April 14th 2007)

99 Problems
– (ten-minute play) produced by Desipina Productions in an evening of short plays at Richmond Shepard Theatre, NYC (2008)