Toronto Profiles Project: Writer & Theatre Maker Andrew Kushnir
Meet Writer & Theatre-Maker Andrew Kushnir.
Andrew is a Toronto-based playwright, actor, director, dramaturg, and community arts worker. He's been a member of Project: Humanity since 2009. Playwright of The Middle Place, Small Axe, and Wormwood, Andrew’s writing has been described as “more than dramatized social work.” A four-time Dora Award nominee (twice for writing, twice for performance), Andrew is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program as well as a Loran Scholar. In 2011, his play The Middle Place picked up the Toronto Theatre Critics' Award for Best Production. In 2013 he received the U of A’s Alumni Horizon Award in recognition of his verbatim theatre practice. Along with his work at Project: Humanity, he has held artistic roles at Crow's Theatre, Stratford and Tarragon Theatre.
He's currently developing a new piece funded by the Shevchenko Foundation about his family history in relation to his Grandfather who was a watch-maker in Western Ukraine before traveling through Europe and the UK to end up in Canada. Stay tuned for more on that show.
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