Makram Ayache
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- The Green Line
- The Hooves Belonged to the Deer
- Dora Mavor Moore Outstanding New Play Independent Category (2025), Governor General Literary Award Finalist (2024)
- Betty Mitchell Award Recipient (2022)
- Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Outstanding Independent Production Award Recipient (2023)
- Playwrights' Guild of Canada's Tom Hendry Outstanding Emerging Artist Recipient (2020)
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Makram Ayache is a Canadian playwright and actor, whose play The Green Line was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2024 Governor General's Awards.[1]
Born in Lebanon and raised in rural Alberta, he is a graduate of the University of Alberta, and currently divides his time between Edmonton and Toronto.[2]
His first play, Harun, was staged at the Sage Theatre's Ignite! festival in Calgary in 2017.[3] It was subsequently remounted at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival in 2018.[4] It received an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nomination for Outstanding Fringe New Work in 2019,[5] and won the Playwrights Guild of Canada's RBC Emerging Playwright Award in 2020.[2]
The Green Line premiered in 2022 at Calgary's Arts Commons,[6] and was a Betty Award winner for Outstanding New Play that year.[7]
In 2023, his play The Hooves Belonged to the Deer premiered in Toronto, as a collaboration between Tarragon Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times.[8] It was subsequently remounted in Edmonton at the Edmonton Fringe Theatre Arts Barn. It received an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding Independent Production and Outstanding Director for Peter Hinton-Davis.
In 2025, Ayache's play The Tempest: A Witch in Algiers won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Original Play (Independent Theatre).[9]