Thinesh Thillainadarajah

Thinesh is an Eelam Tamil Queer lawyer and creative hailing from Toronto, Canada. Aside from his day job as a banking lawyer, he is the creator and producer of You Have Been Told A Lie, a podcast that chronicles the journey of the Nadesalingam family and Tamil asylum seekers, geopolitics, border surveillance, and Australia’s complicity in human rights violations domestically and abroad. You Have Been Told A Lie won Best News and Affairs Podcast at the 2023 iHeart Australian Podcast Awards. He is also the creative producer of Hot Sauce, a gathering that aims to create an intentional space to celebrate the lives of queer people of colour. Thinesh has also been involved in Community Engagement with the Darlinghurst Theatre Company, the Griffin Theatre Company, and most recently with the Belvoir Street Theatre for their productions of Holding the Man and Counting and Cracking. He currently serves as Co-Chair on the Board of Utp in Western Sydney.