Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama and fiction as well as a director, dramaturge, translator, and actor. He received the Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas and is a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. His work includes the critically acclaimed Feast, The Art of Building a Bunker (with Adam Lazarus), the Governor-General shortlisted Noam Chomsky Lectures (with Daniel Brooks), the Seattle Times' Footlight Award-winning Adventures of Ali & Ali (with Marcus Youssef and Camyar Chai), A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), bloom, and Another Country. His work has been recorded, anthologized, translated into Spanish and Italian, produced in Europe and the US, and is studied in Latin America, Australia, Europe, and North America.
He lives in Toronto with Tamsin Kelsey, his partner of many years, and their two children.
Winner 1993 Governor General’s Award for Drama
Winner 1994 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1994 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1993 Governor General’s Award for Drama
Winner 1992 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Short-listed 1992 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
Winner 2009 MECCA Awards
Winner 2010 MECCA Award
Winner 1997 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award