{"id":5702,"date":"2014-08-26T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=5702"},"modified":"2024-10-09T21:44:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:44:42","slug":"pamela-mala-sinha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/pamela-mala-sinha\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Mala Sinha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pamela Mala Sinha is an actor and playwright.  She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba but now lives in Toronto, Ontario.  Her acting career spans film, television and theatre.  Her first solo play, Crash<\/em>, which she also performed, debuted in Toronto in spring 2012 and was nominated for six Dora Mavor Moore Awards and won  four including Outstanding New Play, and, Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Crash<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama, 2014.
PS8637 .I635 C72 2014<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From the Fall 2014 Catalogue of J. Gordon Shillingford)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After the loss of a loved one, a woman must face the shattering memories of a past trauma. Crash<\/em> is the fractured unraveling of memory; a tour de force narrative about family, faith and love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama, 2017.
PS8637 .I633 H36 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from the Fall 2015 Catalogue of J. Gordon Shillingford)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pamela Mala Sinha\u2019s new play explores the lives of seven women aged 23 to 60 who are residents of an in-patient care facility: a microcosm for the world outside its walls. What is it to live inside the suffering of these women\u2026addressing the idea that we are not so different from each other, though our circumstances may be? Each woman must try to find a way to fit into a world that can\u2019t respond to or redress a pain that is \u2018un-see- able\u201d. But they are also the ones who can teach one another how to live with what happened to them as no one else ever could. Even if they can\u2019t always do it for themselves. Happy Place<\/em> premieres in September 2015 at Toronto\u2019s Soulpepper Theatre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2023?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 1970s Winnipeg\u2014a time of revolution and radical possibilities\u2014and an apartment building of Indian immigrant friends is about to be transformed by their latest arrival. A young Bengali Muslim woman, Nuzha, has just married Qasim over the phone at his mother\u2019s insistence, and can\u2019t wait to start her new life with him. But Qasim struggles to let go of his true love, a Canadian nurse named Abby, making him an emotionally and physically distant husband. Broken-hearted but full of pluck, Nuzha finds comfort and adventures on her own terms by exploring everything her new community has to offer. From braving the bus schedule to building close relationships with Qasim\u2019s friends, Nuzha\u2019s discoveries are thrilling, enriching, and crack open new possibilities for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards–Drama, English<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology (Drama)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Love, Loss, and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sinha, Pamela Mala. “Crash.” In Love, Loss, and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays<\/em>, edited by Dalbir Singh. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2015, [267]-313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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