Guillermo Verdecchia (born December 7, 1962) is a

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theatre artist. Verdecchia was born in

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

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. Verdecchia received an undergraduate degree in theatre at

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, and a master's degree in English and Theatre Studies from the

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, Ontario. Verdecchia received the 1993 Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play ''Fronteras Americanas''. He is a four-time winner of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, 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

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and has been writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the

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

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, and teaches various drama related courses. 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

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