On this episode of Do It Again But Better, Jess chats to actor, dancer, theatre maker, film producer and burlesque/cabaret/drag artist extraordinaire, Shamita Siva. Bonding over the theatre-making skills they respectively picked up back in the day at Monash University, Sham shares some performance triumphs and disasters, like the time they accidentally turned up blue at an audition, the time they forgot about their Zoom audition during a hot girl Covid walk so did it crouching by the side of the road, and the time they tried to summon Sour Patch Kids through their mirror.

Shamita Siva is a multi-faceted performer with a background in dance. She holds a BA Performing arts, and is an alum of Stella Adler AoA LA. Shamita's talent shines on stage and screen. Theatre highlights include “Nosferatu," (Malthouse), and "Mara Korper" (Citizen Theatre), and multiple feature films including "FOE”, “La Famiglia, and “Thunder”; an upcoming boxing indie feature. Shamita also stars in Single Out (S3 and S4), and is a series regular on Stan/ CW show “Good Cop, Bad Cop” as Officer Sarika Ray.

Her award-winning dance film “Twin Flame” premiered in 2024, and continues to tour the festival circuit.

You can currently catch Sham in Good Cop Bad Cop on @stanaustralia.

You can find Sham on Instagram at @anfractuous or online at shamitasiva.com. You can see what their company, Shadow Goose Entertainment, is up to over at shadow-goose.com.

You can find your host, Jess Stanley, on Instagram at @jstanny or at www.jessicastanleyactor.com

You can check out Jess's theatre company, Spinning Plates Co. at @spinningplatesco or at www.spinningplatesco.com

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