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 is a sessional instructor at Algoma University College and 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 (Based on identity issues of Latin American immigrants.)
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