NATESHA SOMASUNDARAM
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​Writer

Natesha is a writer and performer for theatre and television.  She graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in 2017 and was resident playwright at Melbourne Theatre Company 2017-2019.

Natesha wrote Episode 10 of THE UNLISTED for Aquarius Films/Netflix.  She has worked as writer for Season 2 of GET KRACK!N for the ABC, and in the writers’ rooms for: SIXTEEN (Good Thing Productions), THE INTERPRETER (Kojo), THE UNLISTED (Aquarius), PARENT UP (Buster Films) GRAND DISASTERS (Subtext Pictures), UNPOPULAR US (Wooden Horse) and BIG WORDS SMALL STORIES (Moody Street Productions). Natesha was selected for the AFTRS/Film Victoria Talent Camp program and has also undertaken a script attachment on HALIFAX: RETRIBUTION with Beyond Lone Productions. She is currently writing 3 episodes of children’s television on a new series for Moody Street Productions. 

Her plays include: GIRL FRIEND; HELLO, WORLD!; DEAD MEAT; ENTOMOLOGY; HUMAN RESOURCES; and JEREMY AND LUCAS BUY A FUCKING HOUSE.  Natesha's plays have been performed at: Belvoir’s 25A; Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Electric; La Mama Theatre; Play Writing Australia’s National Play Festival; Melbourne Fringe Festival; and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.  She has had work developed by Playwriting Australia and through Sydney Theatre Company’s Rough Draft programme.  

JEREMY AND LUCAS BUY A FUCKING HOUSE was nominated for Best Writing at the 2019 Green Room Awards. After a sell-out premiere season at La Mama Theatre, JEREMY AND LUCAS BUY A FUCKING HOUSE (which she also performed in and co-directed) returned to La Mama in 2018 for another sell-out season as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.  

Natesha has had plays commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre.  Her latest play HELLO, WORLD! will premiere at Malthouse Theatre in 2020.