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Leah Cherniak
Leah is Co-Artistic Director
with Martha Ross of Theatre Columbus where she creates and directs new
Canadian plays. For the company she has directed many collectively created
works including Hotel Loopy, Lonely Nights and Other Stories
and The Betrayal, (winner of 1999 Chalmers Canadian Play Award).
Leah has also directed classics for Theatre Columbus such as Twelfth
Night, The Cherry Orchard (co-director) and adaptations of
The Barber Of Seville and Peer Gynt.
Leah directed and co-wrote
The Anger In Ernest & Ernestine which was published in 1990
and has been performed in theatres across Canada and internationally.
In 1997 she created and performed the role of Jelly in The Attic,
the Pearls and 3 Fine Girls, a collaboratively written play. In
1992 she received the Pauline McGibbon award for directing. Leah also
directs for other theatres in Canada, more recently, New Canadian
Kid by Dennis Foon at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People
and Rune Arlidge by Michael Healey at Tarragon Theatre. Leah
also teaches theatre with clown as her specialty. She taught for 14
years at the National Theatre School of Canada and now teaches in the
Ryerson University Theatre Program and George Brown College.
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