Dr Sita Thomas is a Welsh-Indian cultural leader and creator based in Cardiff. She is Artistic Director and CEO of Fio, a theatre company that focuses on creating work with Welsh Global Majority creatives and participants. She is Creative Associate at Wales Millennium Centre and Associate Artist at National Youth Theatre.

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Sita holds a PhD from the University of Warwick and a Masters in Movement Direction from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, both funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is a trustee of Emergency Exit Arts and Young Vic, and is part of the advisory groups for Refugee Week and Movement Directors’ Association. Sita is also a presenter of Channel 5’s milkshake! 

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Directing credits include: The House of Jollof Opera, a pop up food hip-hopera experience for Fio and Music Theatre Wales, The Shoemaker, an immersive opera co-created with refugees and asylum seekers in Wales for Welsh National Opera, Oasis Cardiff and Fio; Coventry Embraces, a large-scale site-specific production as part of Good Chance’s The Walk with Little Amal; Go Tell The Bees, a feature film about Pembrokeshire for National Theatre Wales; Press Play Here, short films for Theatre Royal Stratford East; Under The Mask, a binaural audio drama about the NHS for Tamasha and Oxford Playhouse. As assistant, associate and staff director, Sita has worked at National Theatre, Royal Court, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Royal Festival Hall. Sita was previously Co-Artistic Director (maternity cover) of Common Wealth theatre. Sita was a Headlong Origins Director 2022, and was part of the National Theatre Director's Course 2022 and Royal Opera House Jette Parker Director's Course 2021. She was a recipient of an MGCfutures award in 2019. 

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Movement directing credits include: Brown Boys Swim by Karim Khan (The North Wall, Soho Theatre); The Glee Club (Stockroom, Cast, Kiln); Much Ado About Nothing, Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin (Watford Palace). 

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Sita is particularly passionate about supporting the development of the next generation of creatives from the Global Majority. She leads artist development programmes including 'Arise - Wales Creates', a partnership between Fio and Wales Millennium Centre that pays ten producers and ten directors from underrepresented backgrounds to increase their skills, networks and confidence, and Tamasha Directors' Programme. 

 

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