Dhamma Jagoda was the first Head of the Drama Unit at the National Television channel Rupavahini

Rupavahini

Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation , is the national television network of Sri Lanka. Gifted by the people of Japan to the people of Sri Lanka, mainly for the provision of education, information and entertainment....

 Corporation in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

. He was a pioneer theater and television play director and actor In Sri Lanka. He inaugurated the first theatre school (the Lionel Wendt Kala Kendra Ranga Shilpa Shalika)at Lionel Wendt Art Centre

Lionel Wendt Art Centre

The Lionel Wendt Art Centre is an art centre dedicated to the memory of Sri Lankan Lionel Wendt. It combines live theater and art exhibition, with two exhibition galleries and a theater with over 600 seats.-History:...

, Colombo 7,
in the 1970s and it was the foundation for many artists who have emerged in Sri Lanka in recent years. Dhamma Jagoda was educated at Mahinda College

Mahinda College

Mahinda College is a Buddhist boys' school in Galle, Sri Lanka. It is a national school, which provides primary and secondary education. The school was established on March 1, 1892 by the Buddhist Theosophical Society led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott...

, Galle

Galle

Galle is a city situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km from Colombo. Galle is the capital city of Southern Province of Sri Lanka and it lies in Galle District....

 and later at Nalanda College Colombo.

Directed Play

• 1963 Vesmuhunu
• 1971 Malavun Nagiti
• Kora saha Andaya (The Lame and the Blind) script Dharmasena Pathiraja
  Dharmasena Pathiraja
  Dharmasena Pathiraja is a Sri Lankan film director andscreenwriter.- Early life :Educated at Dharmaraja College, Kandy,Pathiraja graduated from the University of Peradeniya with an honours degree in Sinhala and Western Classical Culture in 1967. Subsequently he began work as a lecturer in Drama...
  
    Produced by Dhamma Jagoda
• Moscow GiniGani
• Sakala Jana
• Hotabariyudde
• Kuriru Ranga( Play of cruelty)
• Parasthawa and Porisadaya

Performed Play

• 1963 Kuveni
• 1968 E. M. Forster’s A Passage To India:
• 1976 Nattukkari
• Punchi Palingurena
• Maname
• Kelani Palama
• Muhudu Puttu
• Kontara

External links

• Dhamma Jagoda in Sinhala Cinema Database
• www.gratiaen.com
• Dhamma Jagoda remembered