Chennai actress Pooja Devariya was awarded the prestigious 'Emerging Artists Award' at the Short and Sweet Theatre Festival's Hollywood edition in Los Angeles. Pooja and Mathivanan Rajendran of 'Stray Factory' were the only Indians at the world's largest short theatre festival where other groups from Mexico, USA, Australia and UAE were present.
Plays 'My Name is Cine-maa' and 'Va Van Gogh' were performed. The award was given in recognition of 50 performances of the former play, for which the two received Best Actress and Best Director awards. In addition to this, the play has been performed in Sydney and Auckland as well.
