Vidya Rajan

About

Vidya Rajan is a writer and performer currently based in Australia working across screenwriting, theatre, comedy, and digital space.

A former writer-in-residence at the Malthouse Theatre, graduate of the VCA, and a recipient of Screen Australia’s Developer Program, her work has often been described as surreal, inventive, and darkly funny.

Recently, her sketch writing as part of the The Feed (SBS) won the 2022 AWGIE award for Best Comedy Writing, and her digital interactive experience In Search of Lost Scroll took home Best Experimental Artwork at the 2022 Melbourne Fringe awards and was shortlisted for the International New Media Writing Prize.

Past Events

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The Next Big Thing

Hot Desk Edition (November)

Veronica Sullivan, Fury, Hiroki Kobayashi, Lou Smith, Fiona Spitzkowsky, Lilit Žekulin Thwaites, Vidya Rajan, Eloise Grills

Past event

21 Nov

Emerging Writers’ Festival Programme Launch: The Awkward Stage

Izzy Roberts-Orr, Aïsha Trambas, Vidya Rajan, Kat Clarke, Ahmed Yussuf, Sumudu Samarawickrama

Past event

15 May

We Are Nemeses: Talking Experimental Comedy

Vidya Rajan, Alistair Baldwin, Chloe Alison Escott, Scott Limbrick

Past event

22 Apr

Live-stream: We Are Nemeses: Talking Experimental Comedy

Vidya Rajan, Alistair Baldwin, Scott Limbrick, Chloe Alison Escott

Past event

29 Jun

Fringe Debate: Should Culture Be Cancelled?

Lou Wall, Jean Tong, Ash Flanders, Evelyn Araluen, Moira Finucane, Zoë Coombs Marr, Vidya Rajan, Stuart Daulman

Past event

24 Nov

Poetry Month Gala

Tony Birch, Evelyn Araluen, Simon Ortiz, PiO, Walter Kadiki, Thuy On, Grace Tame, David Stavanger, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Vidya Rajan, Ren Alessandra, Izzy Roberts-Orr