Gamini Kalyanadarsha Haththotuwegama (29 November 1939 – 30 October 2009) was a  SriLankan  playwright,  director,  actor, critic  and educator. He was widely known as the father of Sri Lanka's modern street theater. He was among the most influential directors of post-independent Sri Lanka.

-Kalakeerthi / University lecturer in English and Fine Arts (at University of Peradeniya, Kalaniya mainly) Bilingual Dramatist and Theatre Director and Educator and Art-Critic across the Media for over 30 years. President of Sri Lanka’s first ever Film Critics and Journalists Association (1966-1974).Shakespeare, Chekov & Brecht Transcreator and Co-Founding Director of Sri Lanka’s pioneering Wayside and Open Theater Group(1974 - 2009)