Guillermo Verdecchia
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Guillermo Verdecchia (born December 7, 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Canadian theatre artist.
Verdecchia came to Canada at the age of two, and was raised in Waterloo, Ontario. He studied theatre at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto.
Verdecchia is a recipient of the Governor-General's Award for Drama, a four-time winner of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and a recipient of various other awards for acting as well as sundry film festival awards for Crucero/Crossroads, the short film, made with Ramiro Puerta, based on his play Fronteras Americanas.
His work engages questions of representation, political power, and cultural theory. He has been writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Guelph, and at Ca' Foscari in Venice. He has also published a collection of short stories, Citizen Suarez in 1998.
[edit] Plays
- Lions in Verona, 1980
- Not Another Banana Republic, 1987
- i.d., 1989 with The Hour Co.
- Final Decisions (WAR), 1990
- The Noam Chomsky Lectures, 1990 with Daniel Brooks
- Fronteras Americanas, 1993
- A Line in the Sand, 1995 with Marcus Youssef
- The Terrible but Incomplete Journals of John D, 1996
- Insomnia, 1998with Daniel Brooks
- Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil, 2004 with Camyar Chai and Daniel Brooks
- bloom, [(2006]]
