Deaf performance

Thurga Kanagasekarampillai (She/They) is Tamil Deaf Non-Binary Genderqueer artist. She has worked as Deaf Interpreter and ASL performer for "The Enchanted Loom" (2016); Red Dress Production for “Drift Seeds” (2017); Million Billion Pieces (YTP 2019); The Holy Gasp (July 2020); Speculation (2018, 2019, 2021); Ministry of Mundane Mysteries with Outside the March (2020, Sound Off Festival 2021, 2022); At This Hour (2021/2023). She is also an actress and was in ‘The Tempest’ at Citadel Theatre as Miranda in Edmonton in April - May 2019. She was the one of three founders of Deafies’ Unique Time with Ali Saeedi, and Ralitsa Rodriguez. Deafies’ Unique Time - ‘Eye So Twisted’ (Rhubarb Festival / Sound Off Festival 2019), Deafies Detective Agency (Sound Off Festival 2020.)

Thurga is currently in BFA in Acting program at University of Alberta since 2022.