ABOUT
Andrew Kushnir is a Canadian playwright, director, performer, teacher, and community arts worker who calls Toronto home. He is artistic director of the socially-engaged theatre company Project: Humanity, where much of his documentary theatre work is done. Along with being a University of Alberta alum and Loran Scholar, he became the inaugural recipient of the Shevchenko Foundation REACH artist residency in 2019. In 2023, Andrew was named one of ten “Canadian Artists of the Year” by the Globe and Mail. In 2024, he received the Dora Award for Outstanding Direction and the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Director of a Play.
KEY AFFILIATIONS
Project: Humanity
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (University of Toronto) Crow’s Theatre
Tarragon Theatre
Drama Research (Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, University of Toronto)
Stratford Festival of Canada
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