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Posted: Tuesday March 23, 2010

Guillermo Verdecchia

Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama, fiction, and film; a director, dramaturge, actor, and translator whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens, and radios across the country and around the globe. The author, or co-author, of, among other works, The Noam Chomsky Lectures and Insomnia (with Daniel Brooks); Fronteras Americanas, The Terrible but Incomplete Journals of John D., bloom; A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), and the controversial Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil (with Camyar Chai and Marcus Youssef). He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Drama, a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, a recipient of Dora and Jessie Awards, and sundry film festival awards for his film Crucero/Crossroads, based on Fronteras Americanas and made with Ramiro Puerta.

He lives in Toronto with Tamsin Kelsey, his partner of many years, and their two children.

Awards and Recognition*
Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1997) A Line the Sand with Marcus Youssef
Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, Community Recognition Award (1994)
Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1994) Fronteras Americanas
Governor General’s Award for Drama (1993) Fronteras Americanas
Governor General’s Award for Drama, Finalist (1992) The Noam Chomsky Lectures with Daniel Brooks
Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1992) The Noam Chomsky Lectures with Daniel Brooks
Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1990) i.d.

LATEST Guillermo Verdecchia NEWS

May 2011 : Go See Fronteras Americanas!

March 2011 : Argentina's Dirty War and Stolen Children

October 2010 : Soulpepper Is Nothing to Sneeze At

September 2010 : Another Divertimento for Warlords

September 2010 : Ali & Ali in a Post-G20 World

BOOK AWARDS

Fronteras Americanas

Winner of the 1994 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner of the 1993 Governor General’s Award for Drama

BOOK AWARDS

A Line in the Sand

Winner of 3 MECCA Awards (2009-2010)
Winner of the 1997 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

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QUOTES OF NOTE

Another Country / bloom

“Verdecchia … know[s] how to modulate emotional tones beautifully …
bloom is a poetic look at a world where hope must grow in sandy soil.”

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts; the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program; and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council for our publishing activities.