Kalieaswari Srinivasan is a writer and performer based in Pondicherry, who works in India, Europe, Australia. She is an alumni of Berlinale Acting Studio. Her first film venture was the Cannes 2015 Palme D'or winner DHEEPAN directed by the French director Jacques Audiard, where she played the female protagonist, Yalini. In her next film, she played one of the three female leads in the film SIVARANJANIYUM INNUM SILA PENGALUM directed by Vasanth S Sai that premiered in the Mumbai Film Festival. It toured National and International Film Festivals garnering critical acclaim and awards. It has been creating conversations about gender equations in domestic spaces, which is the subject dealt with in the film.
Her recent theatre projects include the play, THE PRISONER, with the legendary theatre director Peter Brook and his long time collaborator Marie Hélène Estienne. The Prisoner, premiered at The Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, March 2018, and had since then been on a year long world tour around Europe, the USA and the UK. She was also part of their presentation on THE TEMPEST at the Bouffes, in Feb, 2020. In December 2019, she was part of ON THE OTHER SIDE - Concert for Piano and Silences’, a work demonstration-created by Jubilo Foundation, co-financed by the City of Wroclaw, presented at the Grotowski Institute.
Her recent theatre work also had her playing the central character in THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA by S. Shaktiharan and Eamon Flack. As well as she played in the 2019 Adelaide season of COUNTING AND CRACKING produced by Belvoir theatre - Sydney, directed by Eamon Flack. BIRYANI directed by Jay Emmanuel, performed and co-written by her, was part of the Winter Arts Festival in Perth, July 2017. She has translated BATTLEFIELD - a play based on Le Mahabharata by Peter Brook, Marie Hélène Estienne and Jean Claude Carrière. Her translation in Tamil was published last year in AADII - a digital magazine for theatre.
BEGUM PARVATHI - directed by Radhika Prasidhha, has been selected to be screened in Short Film Festivals in Toronto, Mumbai, Seattle. She worked in RETTAI JADAI - directed by Franziska Schönenberger and Jayakrishnan Subramanian not only as anchor but also as performance coach for the young cast. It won Awards at OSCAR® Qualifying festival BISFF Bengaluru and Tasveer Southasian Festival in Seattle. Her next challenge as an artist was her first script for the feature film PAPER PLANE, which is based on a true story. In 2021 a script development grant by the Goethe Institut Chennai to travel to Munich in Germany for research. Currently she is working on the dramatic texts the video installation KADAL SINDU supported by the Indian Fundation for the Arts (IFA) and a short film script, which is a decolonizing adaption of the Brothers Grimm DER FROSCHKÖNIG.