Chanika Desilva

Chanika is an Australian Actor, Writer and Educator. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Chanika immigrated to Western Sydney during Sri Lanka’s civil war. She has studied and worked in London, LA and Vancouver. She has a Bachelor of Performance, Music and Theatre, Graduate Diploma in Education. She is part of the NSW Writer’s Association, a Special Needs Educator at NSW DET and a mentor at Arise Foundation. She believes that her time spent abroad living on four continents and travelling to over Forty countries made her the artist she is today; a person deeply interested in people of all persuasions, their stories, and making people laugh out loud.