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 received an undergraduate degree in theatre at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto, and a Master's Degree in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.
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 published as Another Country2007
- 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, 1998 with Daniel Brooks
- Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil, 2004 with Camyar Chai and Marcus Youssef
- bloom, 2006
[edit] Trivia
- Verdecchia was the 2007 Hayes-Jenkinson Memorial lecturer at Algoma University College.
