About the Founder
Ranga Jayaratne, holds an MA in Theatre Directing from University of East London and a Licentiate Diploma in teaching Speech and Drama from Trinity College UK. She has over 20 years collective experience in teaching and directing theatre performances. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Cue theatre co and Cue School of Drama. Students under Ranga’s guidance have gone to win numerous awards in Speech and Drama and other related fields.
She also specializes in directing children’s plays for Nurseries and Pre Schools. She is the drama director and advisor to Carlton Pre-Schools, a large pre-school chain where she writes and directs annual plays for the school which is most often tele-casted on national Television.
Cue theatre co. has produced plays from musicals, ghost stories to out-door theatre. Ranga’s knack for exploring all genres of theatre has driven her to direct and produce some unique stage productions for Cue. Some of Cue theatre co.’s productions include Our Town, Eurydice and The Woman in Black. (Read press articles)
After 17 years of teaching she founded Cue School of Drama, which offers a programme that is dedicated to performance. At the school students are assessed through performance based activities and not through examinations. The School offers lessons for students aged 3 years and above with fast-paced creative, engaging, and fun lessons structured specifically to develop students personalities, English language, speech, and skill as young actors.
Carlton Pre-schools – Sri Lanka is the largest pre-school chain in the country. Each cast comprised between 25 to 40 students aged between 2.5 to 4 years. The plays are staged in Colombo and replicated by different casts in branches in Beliatte, Kandy, Ranna and Nuwara Eliya. All Carlton plays are scripted specially for the school.
- 2011 Thumbelina
- 2012 Snow White
- 2013 Annie
- 2014 Cinderella
- 2015 Musical Family
- 2016 Sleeping Beauty
- 2017 Little mermaid
- 2018 Robin Hood
- 2019 The Elves and the Shoemaker
2003 – 2015
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Play Skit
- Annie – Play Skit
- Thumbelina – Play Skit
- The BFG – Play Skit
- The Little Mermaid – Scripted for nursery students
- Goldilocks – Scripted for nursery students
- Elves and the Shoemaker – Scripted for nursery students
- Cinderella – Play for students aged 4 to 12 years
- Mother Goose tales – Scripted for students aged 4 to 6 years
- Rhyme Land – Scripted for Nursery students
- Snow White – Scripted for nursery students
- 2010 – Pretend by Swara
- 2009 – Swara, Charity show