Andrew Kushnir
Stratford: Director of Casey and Diana; assistant director of Napoli Milionaria!, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Elsewhere: As director: The Division (Tarragon Theatre/TMU), Towards Youth (Project: Humanity/Crow’s Theatre with Chris Abraham); Shirley Valentine, The New Canadian Curling Club (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Freedom Singer (Project: Humanity, national tour). As playwright: The Division; Towards Youth; Small Axe; The Gay Heritage Project (with Paul Dunn/Damien Atkins); Wormwood; The Middle Place. Training: University of Alberta, Loran Scholar. Awards: Toronto Theatre Critics Award Outstanding Production (The Middle Place), Shevchenko Foundation REACH Residency. Online: kushnirandrew.com, @andrewkushnir (Instagram). Artistic director of Project: Humanity and creator of This Is Something Else, an investigative theatre history podcast for the Arts Club. Andrew co-founded the Stratford Festival’s Queer-Straight Alliance (2018) and established the We Support LGBTQ Ukraine Fund with the Veritas Foundation: lgbtukrainesupport.com.
Person History
Casey and Diana
2023
