Guillermo Verdecchia is a Canadian

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 theatre artist.

Verdecchia was born in Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

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 and came to Canada at the age of two. He was raised in Kitchener

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, Ontario

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. Verdecchia received an undergraduate degree in theatre at Ryerson Polytechnic

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 in Toronto

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, and a Master's Degree in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Guelph

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 in Guelph

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, Ontario.

Verdecchia received the 1993 Governor-General's Award for Drama

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 for his play Fronteras Americanas. He is a four-time winner of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

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, 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 Fronteras Americanas.

His work engages questions of representation, political power, and cultural theory. Verdecchia is a sessional instructor at Algoma University and has been writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland

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, the University of Guelph

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, and at Ca' Foscari in Venice. In 2007 he was the 2007 Hayes-Jenkinson Memorial lecturer at Algoma University.

He has also published a collection of short stories, Citizen Suarez in 1998.

Plays

• Lions in Verona, 1980
• Not Another Banana Republic, 1987
• i.d., 1989 with The Hour Co.
• Final Decisions (WAR), 1990 (published as Another Country, 2007)
• 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

External links

• Guillermo Verdecchia at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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