Djanet Sears

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Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director. She was born in 1959 in England, to a Guyanese father and a Jamaican mother. Sears was raised in England and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her birth name was Janet — she added the D when she came across a town called Djanet on a trip to Algeria.

Her play Harlem Duet won many Canadian awards, including four Dora Mavor Moore Awards and a Governor General's Award for drama.

In addition to her writing, Sears also acts in theatre and film productions. She was also a founding member of Obsidian Theatre, a Toronto theatre company that specializes in African and Caribbean Canadian drama, and is a professor at the University of Toronto.

Plays

Afrika Solo (1987)
Harlem Duet (1997) (won the Governor General's Award for English language drama in 1998)
The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (2001)

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Name	Sears, Djanet
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Short description	Canadian writer
Date of birth	1959
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