Pamela Mala Sinha
Season 1, Episode 15: Accepting uncertainty
Pamela Mala Sinha is an accomplished actor, multi award-winning playwright, writer, screenwriter and classically trained Indian dancer. She's a beloved daughter, sister, stepmom, and partner, and trying to explain our first meeting fills me with intense emotion.
We became roommates in my second year of study at the National Theatre School. It was very much a tale of two cities. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Pamela had been raped and tortured in her first apartment across the street from the school the previous year. This episode is about that time but also all the time since then.
Pamela’s short story “Hiding” was included in the anthology, Dropped Threads 2, edited by Carole Shields and published by Penguin Random House.
Her debut play, Crash, earned Dora Mavor Moore awards for outstanding new play and oustanding lead actress.
Happy Place, written by Pamela, was produced by Sienna Films and directed by Helen Shaver with an outstanding cast: Clark Backo, Marie-Eve Perron, Tara Rosling, Liisa Repo-Martell, Jennifer Wigmore, Sheila McCarthy, Pamela Sinha and Mary Walsh.
