Sindhura Kalidas is a Singaporean theatre practitioner and educator. She is an Associate Artist with The Necessary Stage (TNS) and a core team member of The Finger Players (TFP).
Sindhu’s performance credits include Wild Rice’s Psychobitch, Deonn Yang’s Why Be Good When You Can Be The Best? (2023), presented as part of the M1 Fringe Festival, and TNS’s Off Centre (2019).
Her dramaturgical credits include the Singapore Youth Theatre’s double bill Every Student Is A Good Student/In My Head (2023), TFP’s Puppet Origin Stories (2022), and TNS’s Acting Mad (2022). She was also the Series Dramaturg for the Esplanade's PLAYtime! series in 2023 and 2024.
She made her writing debut with TNS's Happy Indian Women (2023), a verbatim theatre piece challenging assumptions about Singapore's diverse South Asian diaspora, co-directed with Haresh Sharma.
Sindhu is a recipient of the NAC Postgraduate Arts Scholarship and holds an MA (Distinction) in Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London. She hopes to continue exploring themes of race, gender, and community in future works.
Photography by Crispian Chan
Last Updated: May 2024