Sugith Varughese
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Sugith Varughese (1958- ) is an Indian-born Canadian writer, director and actor. Born in Cochin, Kerala, into a Syrian Christian family ("Varughese," also sometimes spelled "Varghese" and "Verghese" and variously pronounced, is Malayalam for "George"[1]), he immigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a child when his neurosurgeon father obtained a professional appointment there.[2] His family's native language is Malayalam; having grown up in anglophone western Canada he naturally speaks English with a Canadian accent but from time to time affects an assortment of South Asian accents when playing dramatic roles that call for them.
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[edit] Background
Sugith Varughese was raised in Saskatoon, began university studies at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon with a double major in pre-medicine and drama, [3] and continued on to an undergraduate degree in drama at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a Master of Fine Arts at York University in Toronto.[4] He went on to write, act in and direct film and television productions in both Canada and the USA. As a director, he has been nominated for and won several Canadian film and television and international film festival awards.[5] He holds a black belt in karate.[6]
[edit] Credits
His credits include the following.
[edit] Television
- As a television actor: “Kevin Hill”; “Solar Strike”; "Metropia" “Peep”; “Degrassi: The Next Generation"; “I Want Candy”; “A Question”; “An American in Canada”; “Doc”; “Veritas: The Quest”; “Street Time”; “Get a Clue”; “Snap Decision”; “Blue Murder”; “A Colder Kind of Death”; “Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story”; “Relic Hunter”; “Deliberate Intent”; “Falcone”; “Mission to Mars”; “The Spreading Ground”; “Tribulation”; “Lethal Vows”; “Freak City”; “The Defenders: Taking the First”; “Naked City: Justice with a Bullet”; “A Father for Brittany”; “Earth: Final Conflict”; “Major Crime”; “Too Close to Home”; “PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal”; “F/X: The Series”; “Nancy Drew”; “RoboCop”; “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues”; “Quiet Killer”; “Counterstrike”; “Inside Stories: Home on the Range”; “Night Heat”; “Blindside”; “Best of Both Worlds”; “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.”[7]
[edit] Stage
- As a stage actor: "Tideline" (Factory Theatre); "Bhopal" (Cahoots Theatre); and "Indian Ink" (CanStage/National Arts Centre).[8]
[edit] Scriptwriting
- As scriptwriter: “The Girl Who Hated Books”; “Mind Me Good Now”; “Tongue Tied”; “The Blobheads”; “Roses Sing on New Snow”; “Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance”; “Blue Murder”;“Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room!”; “Talespinners Collection I”; “The Magic of Anansi”; “Lights for Gita”; “From Far Away”; “Groundling Marsh”; “On My Mind”; “Mela's Lunch”; “Kumar and Mr. Jones”; “Mount Royal”; “Best of Both Worlds”; “Fraggle Rock”[9] and "Entry Denied," a CBC radio play detailing the unsuccessful attempt by 376 Punjabi immigrants aboard the Komagata Maru to land in Vancouver in 1914 and the Canadian government's turning them back to India.[10]
[edit] Directing
- As director: “Tongue Tied”; “On My Mind”; “Mela's Lunch”; “Kumar and Mr. Jones.”[11]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Neither the famous Dr Abraham Verghese nor the American stand-up comedian Paul Varghese, both also of Malayali Syrian Christian backgrounds, is necessarily any relation of Sugith Varughese: Malayali Syrian Christians do not have public family names (they have "house" names) and their putative surnames are simply their fathers' Christian names.
- ^ Aseem Chhabra, "I Didn't Want To Be Invisible." Rediff.com, 18 May 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2007.
- ^ Paul Lima, “The Writer As Warrior: Sugith Varughese,” Writers Guild of Canada: The W Files. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
- ^ Chhabra.
- ^ Internet Movie Database: Sujith Varoghese. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
- ^ Lima.
- ^ Internet Movie Database: Sujith Varoghese. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
- ^ Writing at the Intersection: The Diaspora Crosswalk. Diaspora Dialogues. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
- ^ Internet Movie Database: Sujith Varoghese. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
- ^ Best Prices.com. "Where Is Here? : A CBC Radio Drama Anthology". Retrieved 29 September 2007.
- ^ Internet Movie Database: Sujith Varoghese. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
