06/01/2026
Introducing Nithya Nagarajan. An artist, curator and writer working across contemporary performance and visual cultures. She is Artistic Associate at Sydney Festival and Curator & Artist Development at Parramatta Artists Studios, where her practice centres long-term capacity building, artist-led inquiry and bespoke curatorial projects. Nithya has stewarded leading sector development initiatives such as Equity-Builder, Festival Commons and Counterflows; facilitated artist laboratories and residencies including Focus Asia: Residency, Commission, Acquisition with ACMI, the Debra Porch Award and Feedback with West Space; and continually supports the commissioning of ambitious new Australian and transnational works.
With a sustained commitment to Asia Pacific engagement, her expansive projects span anti-caste and abolitionist practices, surveillance and technological imaginaries, inter-Indigenous exchange, and the cultivation of alternate pedagogies and artist-led ecosystems. She has held senior roles at Arts House (City of Melbourne), Creative Australia and the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and is the co-founder of the South Asian artist collective H-ME W-RK. She has also served on the boards of Theatre Network Australia and Create NSW, and has consulted for Arts Centre Melbourne and Melbourne International Film Festival. Nithya holds an award-winning PhD in Performance Studies, and her work consistently foregrounds collaboration, cultural rigour and new forms of gathering, making and knowledge-sharing across geographies. Nithya's major work Nayika: A Dancing Girl co-created with Liv Satchell debuted at Belvoir St. Theatre, Sydney last year to 4500+ audiences.
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