 Returning to Sri Lanka, Meedeniya met up with Ludowyk and Austrian Jew director Neuman Jubal and got back into theater.The Lionel Wendt Art Centre theater portion of the center opened on 12 December 1953 with the production of Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths", starring Iranganie Serasinghe and produced by Neuman Jubal.Doing mainly English roles at first, she started playing in Sinhala theater in Henry Jayasena's "Apata Puthe Magak Nethe" and followed with roles in Damma Jagoda's Sinhala version of "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Ves Muhunu", and "Porisadaya".