Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Biography
Beatriz Pizano (she\her) is a director, actor, playwright and dramaturge and the Artistic Director of Aluna Theatre: a multi-award-winning company that creates, develops, produces and presents interdisciplinary and intercultural theatre.
Over the last two decades, Beatriz has built Aluna into an international company recognized for its unique approach to creation, its daring political work, and its experimentation with multiple-language productions. Her bold creations, in English and Spanish, and other languages as well, are marked by a distinct theatrical language drawing from the heritages, cultures, and languages from across the Americas.
Recent directing selected credits include: The Cunning Linguist by Monica Garrido (A TCL Collective and Aluna Theatre Production in association with Factory Theatre), Rubble by Suvendrini Lena (An Aluna Theatre & Theatre Passe Muraille co-production), Children of Fire by Anna Chatterton and Shahrzad Arshadi (A Nightwood Theatre and Aluna co-production), The Walls by Griselda Gambaro (Soulpepper Theatre Around the World in 80 plays), The Solitudes written by Beatriz Pizano with text by the ensemble (Aluna Theatre). She has appeared in: On the Other Side of the Sea (Aluna Theatre - 2024 Dora Nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Individual), The House of Bernarda Alba (Aluna Theatre and Modern Times production, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Soulpepper/CBC) by Pirandello, The Parliament of the Birds by Guillermo Verdecchia (Soulpepper/CBC) Author, and Dividing Lines|Líneas Divisorias by Beatriz (Aluna Theatre production).
Beatriz is also the Artistic Director and curator for RUTAS International festival of Performance and The CAMINOS national festival of works-in-progress.
Photo by: Ian Brown Photography
Invitations
Senior Playwright in Residency Banff Centre for the Arts
Playwrights Lab, Banff Centre for the Arts
Directed by…GAP, Cahoots Theatre
Training Hub for Directors Prairie Theatre Exchange
Lab Track Director - Stratford Festival
Awards
Finalist Toronto Arts Foundation - The Celebration of Cultural Life Award
Trailblazer & Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (Caltac)
TD’s one of the ten most influential Hispanics in Canada
Toronto Critics and Dora awards for Outstanding Performance (Blood Weddings)
The KM Hunter Artist Award, The Km Hunter Charitable Foundation
The John Hirsch Prize for Direction (The Canada Council for the Arts)
The Chalmers Fellowship Award (Ontario Arts Council)
The Ken McDougall Award (for direction)
The Harold (for direction)
Publications
Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias. Publsihed by Playwrights Canada Press, 2022.
Madre in Fronteras Vivientes: Eight Latina/o Canadian Plays, Edited by Natalie Alvarez. Published by Playwrights Canada Press, 2013.