Dhinesha Karthigesu is a multi-disciplinary storyteller, theatre maker and coach. In 2021, his theatre play RAVAYANA beat a thousand other global entries to be selected as part of a play development programme run by the New York theatre collective The Playwrights Realm. As of September 2023, he is the newly appointed Artistic Director and Lead Producer for Theatresauce, a Kuala Lumpur-based theatre company founded in 2017 focused on telling edgy urban Malaysian stories. Under his leadership, the company is now focused on championing (minority) Malaysian stories.