Guillermo Verdecchia

Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama and fiction as well as a director, dramaturge, translator, and actor. He is the recipient of a Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas and a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. His work, which includes Our Heart Learns, The Art of Building a Bunker (with Adam Lazarus), the Governor-General shortlisted Noam Chomsky Lectures (with Daniel Brooks), the Seattle Times' Footlight Award-winning Adventures of Ali & Ali (with Marcus Youssef and Camyar Chai), A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), bloom, and Another Country has been recorded, anthologized, translated into Spanish and Italian, produced in Europe and the US, and is studied in Latin America, Australia, Europe, and North America. As a director and actor, he has worked at theatres large and very small from Newfoundland to British Columbia. (But not the territories yet!) 
 
He holds an M.A. from the University of Guelph where he received a Governor-General's Gold Medal for Academic Achievement. He has published a number of scholarly articles and contributed book chapters on aspects of intercultural theatre practice in Canada and teaches regularly at the University of Toronto and the National Theatre School of Canada.
 
His newest work includes Feast, which premiered in Winnipeg in the fall of 2023 and played at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto in April 2024, and Versus co-created with Adam Lazarus, which will premiere at The Theatre Centre in the sping of ’26. His adaptation of the 12th C Sufi poem The Parliament of the Birds will be performed by George Brown Theatre School under the direction of Soheil Parsa in early 2026 as well.