Director
Andrew Kushnir is a multi-award-winning director, playwright, and activist who lives in Toronto. He is artistic director of the socially engaged theatre company Project: Humanity, a leading developer of verbatim theatre in Canada. He directed the original production of Casey and Diana at the Stratford Festival (Heritage Toronto Award) and received both the 2023 Dora Award and Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for his direction of Bad Roads by Nataly’a Vorozhbit (Crow’s Theatre). He is a Loran Scholar, Senior Fellow at Massey College and, last season, had his playwriting featured at Lincoln Center.
For Theatre Aquarius: Casey and Diana (debut)
Other Theatre: Directing credits: Casey and Diana (Arts Club, upcoming) Casey and Diana (Soulpepper), The Trials (UofT), Bad Roads (Crow’s Theatre), The Division (TMU/Tarragon), The Real Poems (Here for Now), This is Something Else (Theatre podcast, Arts Club), Towards Youth (Crow’s/Project: Humanity), Freedom Singer (Project: Humanity), Shirley Valentine, New Canadian Curling Club (Thousand Islands Playhouse)
Training: University of Alberta (BFA) Acting
Andrew founded the We Support LGBTQ Ukraine Fund which raises funds for NGOs and activists meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ Ukrainians trapped or internally displaced by war. lgbtukrainesupport.com