0000-0001-5371-9252 About
Thevanayagam Thevananth from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He had been an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Jaffna and the Director of the Media Resources Training Center at the University of Jaffna. He holds a Bachelor of Arts special degree(B.A.Hons), Master of Arts(M.A) from the University of Jaffna, Master of Science(M.Sc.), and Master of Philosophy(M.Phil) in Communication from the University of Madras, India. Currently reading a Ph.D. at Madras University in India. he has been working in the field of drama and theatre in Sri Lanka for over twenty years.
Thevananth was the founder and director of the Active Theatre Movement since 2002. Every year the Nallur Drama Festival is organized by an active Theatre Movement, It is a very popular theatre festival in North Srilanka. So far he has written, directed, and acted in more than 55 plays. His most popular plays were peaks about Sri Lankan politics and war tragedies. Thevananth continuously produces children's drama. During the COVID 19 Pandemic time, 2020/2021 performed dramas online via ZOOM, Now he is practicing online theatre. Thevananth is doing research on Theatre Communication in War and Postwar Srilanka. Further, he is the editor of 'Kooththarangam'Journal of Drama & Theatre since 2004. He is a member of the Jaffna Science Association, Working as the editor in chief of JSA News Letter and Samuka Ariviyal Veli Magazine. He is also the Secretary of the Northern Ceylon Music Society attached with the department of education since 1938. At the same time, he is serving as the president of the Journalism for People Movement in Sri Lanka. This organization was organized, the Fourth Tamil Journalism Conference (2019) in Jaffna., Srilanka. He worked as the convenor of this conference. He is helping people affected by the war and tsunami through theThe Refugee Rehabilitation organization. On this, he has been using theatre for the psychosocial development work of the people affected by the disaster and conflict. He has consistently submitted numerous research papers to international research conferences.
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University of Madras Research Scholar2019 - Present
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