Ruwanthie de Chickera

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dramatist person playwright screenwriter theatre director

Ruwanthie de Chickera is a prominent Sri Lankan playwright, screenwriter, and theatre director known for her socially engaged and award-winning work in contemporary drama and film.

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Label	Occurrences
Ruwanthie de Chickera canonical	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dramatist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ
activeIn	21st century ⓘ late 20th century ⓘ
awardReceived	Gratiaen Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka National Literary Award NERFINISHED ⓘ State Drama Award of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ
citizenship	Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	Royal Holloway, University of London NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Sinhalese NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	drama ⓘ film ⓘ theatre ⓘ
genre	contemporary drama ⓘ political theatre ⓘ socially engaged theatre ⓘ
hasRole	artistic director ⓘ lecturer in theatre ⓘ script consultant ⓘ
hasWorkedOn	feature films ⓘ stage plays ⓘ
influencedBy	Sri Lankan civil conflict NERFINISHED ⓘ postcolonial theatre ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ Sinhala ⓘ
mainTheme	human rights ⓘ migration ⓘ social justice ⓘ war and conflict ⓘ
movement	contemporary Sri Lankan theatre ⓘ
nationality	Sri Lankan NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	award-winning screenwriting ⓘ innovative theatre direction ⓘ socially engaged drama ⓘ
notableWork	Checkpoint NERFINISHED ⓘ Dear Children, Sincerely NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalumaali NERFINISHED ⓘ Machan NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle of Silence NERFINISHED ⓘ The Travelling Circus NERFINISHED ⓘ Walking Path NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ
workLocation	Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: Ruwanthie de Chickera
Description of subject: Ruwanthie de Chickera is a prominent Sri Lankan playwright, screenwriter, and theatre director known for her socially engaged and award-winning work in contemporary drama and film.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

St. Bridget’s Convent, Colombo → hasNotableAlumna → Ruwanthie de Chickera ⓘ