Aishveryaa Nidhi
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Born | New Delhi |
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation | Actor, director, producer, writer |
Aishveryaa Nidhi also known as Aish, is an Indian Australian actor, director, writer, and theatre personality.[1]
She has performed with the Short and Sweet festivals, and has worked to start Short and Sweet Bollywood.[2] Other works include Gandhari... In search of light, a play about the character Gandhari from the Mahabharata which has toured widely. She is also the president and artistic director of Abhinay School of Performing Arts, in Sydney.[3]
Personal Life
She was born and raised in New Delhi, India. She moved with her family to Aukland, New Zealand in 2001, and then to Sydney a year later.[4] Her son, Shourya Nidhi, is an actor and a businessman.
Theatre and acting
She has worked with the Sydney Theatre Company in the 2010 stage adaptation of John Birmingham's novel Leviathan, and the 2013 play The other way, performed in Bankstown Arts Centre and Sydney Theatre Company in 2013.[2]
She acted in the one-woman play Gandhari... In search of light, which is the story of Gandhari from the Mahabharata. It was scripted and directed by Arvind Gaur, and premiered at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, in 2005.[5] The play was later staged in Delhi,[6] Amritsar,[7] Jaipur,[8] and elsewhere. Gandhari was also performed in the International One Man Show Festival held by ITI UNESCO. In 2009 she acted in David Sharpe's Mandragora in Short and Sweet Sydney, a festival of ten-minute plays. Mangragora was adjudged first and was invited to be performed in Gala Finals, where Nidhi became the first Indian Australian ever nominated for 'Best actress' award at the festival.[9]
She is an executive producer and actor in the 2006 independent US film Beyond life.[10] She has also done narration for documentaries radio shows.[11] Nidhi has also consulted for Opera Australia's production of Lakmé, where she was a movement, gestures, and physicality consultant to the cast.[citation needed]
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- Living people
- Australian actresses
- 21st-century Indian actresses
- Indian actresses
- Actresses from Sydney
- Actresses from New South Wales
- Australian stage actresses
- Indian stage actresses
- University of Delhi alumni
- Indian emigrants to Australia
- People from Delhi
- Australian people of Indian descent
- Indian theatre directors
- Artistic directors
- Australian voice actresses
- Australian theatre directors
- Indian Hindus
- Hindi theatre
- Australian people of Punjabi descent
- 20th-century actresses
- Translators by nationality
- Actresses from Delhi