Pamela Mala Sinha is a Canadian actress and playwright.[1] She is most noted for her 2012 one-woman show Crash,[2] for which she won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role – Play (Large Theatre).[3] She was previously nominated as an actress in 2011 for her performance in Anusree Roy's Brothel #9.[4]
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she wrote Crash based on her own experience having been sexually assaulted while attending theatre school in Montreal.[5] She is currently based in Toronto, Ontario.[5]
Sinha's second theatrical play, Happy Place, premiered at the Soulpepper Theatre Company in 2015.[6] It was subsequently adapted by Helen Shaver for the 2020 film Happy Place, for which Sinha wrote the screenplay and performs the role of Rosemary.[7]
On television, she has had recurring and supporting roles as Wanda in Street Legal, Rani in The Newsroom, Faith Colero in Traders, and desk clerk Amira in ER.