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Andrew Kushnir

Headshot of Andrew. He is wearing a black hoodie against a grey background

Andrew Kushnir

(he/him)

Andrew Kushnir is an award-winning playwright, director, 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. His published plays include The Middle Place, The Gay Heritage Project (with Paul Dunn and Damien Atkins), Towards Youth: a play on radical hope, Small Axe and Freedom Singer (in the recently released Moving the Centre co-written with Khari Wendell McClelland). In 2021, Andrew created This Is Something Else, an acclaimed investigative podcast series for the Arts Club in Vancouver. He founded the We Support LGBTQ Ukraine Fund in April 2022, which, to date, has raised nearly $100,000 for NGOs and activists meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ Ukrainians trapped or internally displaced by war. He is the inaugural recipient of the Shevchenko Foundations REACH Residency for the Arts.

 

kushnirandrew.com  (external link, opens in new window) 
projecthumanity.ca  (external link)