Rani Moorthy was born in Malaysia to Sri Lankan parents in 1961. As her family escaped the Kuala Lumpar race riots of 1969 to a border town, Rani attended school across the border to Singapore, clutching her passport everyday. Her love for the arts was first inspired by The Sound of Music as a small child. Now a writer, peformer and Artistic Dirctor of Rasa Productions in Manchester, she has lived in England for twelve years.