Makram Ayache is a Canadian playwright and actor, whose play The Green Line was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2024 Governor General's Awards.[1]
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| Born | December 4, 1990 |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, theatre actor, director, producer |
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| Website | www |
Born in Lebanon and raised in rural Alberta, he is a graduate of the University of Alberta, and currently divides his time between Edmonton and Toronto.[2]
His first play, Harun, was staged at the Sage Theatre's Ignite! festival in Calgary in 2017.[3] It was subsequently remounted at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival in 2018.[4] It received an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nomination for Outstanding Fringe New Work in 2019,[5] and won the Playwrights Guild of Canada's RBC Emerging Playwright Award in 2020.[2]
The Green Line premiered in 2022 at Calgary's Arts Commons,[6] and was a Betty Award winner for Outstanding New Play that year.[7]
In 2023, his play The Hooves Belonged to the Deer premiered in Toronto, as a collaboration between Tarragon Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times.[8] It was subsequently remounted in Edmonton at the Edmonton Fringe Theatre Arts Barn. It received an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding Independent Production that year.
References
edit- ^ "Jordan Abel, Danny Ramadan and Cherie Dimaline among finalists for $25K Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 8, 2024.
- ^ a b "Makram Ayache". Toronto Metropolitan University Asian Heritage in Canada.
- ^ "Emerging artists'voices find space on centre stage; Sage Theatre's Ignite! festival offers mix of different perspectives writes Louis Hobson". Calgary Herald, June 3, 2017.
- ^ Janet French, "Fringe review: Harun". Edmonton Journal, August 20, 2018.
- ^ "Nominees for the Sterling Awards, 2018-19". Edmonton Journal, June 4, 2019.
- ^ Louis B. Hobson, "Review: The Green Line's Lebanese love stories have deep potential". Calgary Herald, April 4, 2022.
- ^ Michele Jarvie, "Betty nominations announced for best of Calgary theatre in 2021-22". Calgary Herald, August 4, 2022.
- ^ J. Kelly Nestruck, "Smart and sensual The Hooves Belonged to the Deer hits Tarragon Theatre: Rising Lebanese-Canadian playwright brings together themes of race, religion and sexuality in a story set in small-town Alberta". The Globe and Mail, April 6, 2023.
- ^ Makram Ayache, "A Portrait of Shame: How The Hooves Belonged to the Deer Reckons with Religious Domination of the Queer Spirit". Intermission, March 23, 2023.