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Djanet Sears is an award-winning playwright, director, and academic at the University of Toronto, where she teaches DRM 328H as an adjunct professor. Renowned for her contributions to African Canadian drama, she is a recipient of Canada’s highest literary honor for dramatic writing—the Governor General’s Literary Award—and the Stratford Festival’s Timothy Findley Award. Her seminal work Harlem Duet (1997) garnered critical acclaim and was workshopped at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in NYC, while her later play The Adventures Of A Black Girl In Search Of God (2003) was shortlisted for a Trillium Book Award.
- Founding member of Obsidian Theatre Company
- Editor of Testifyin’, the first anthologies of African Canadian plays
- Founder of the AfriCanadian Playwrights’ Festival
Her research and creative practice centers on Black Canadian theatre, playwriting, and performance studies. She has been recognized with multiple honors, including the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, and the Harry Jerome Award for Excellence in the Cultural Industries.
Scientific Awards:
- Stratford Festival’s 2004 Timothy Findley Award
- 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award
- 1998 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
- Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award
- Harry Jerome Award for Excellence in the Cultural Industries
- Phenomenal Woman of the Arts Award
