Art Babayants

Art Babayants/ Արտ Բաբայանց is a Canadian-Armenian playwright and director, who has worked with professional, semi-professional and amateur theatre and film makers in Canada, and abroad. Art holds his PhD from the University of Toronto and teaches theatre across the country. His best-known work, a devised collaborative multilingual production In Sundry Languages, was presented at Toronto Fringe (2017) and Caminos (2017) and called by NOW ‘a compelling critique of Canadian inclusiveness’. The script of In Sundry Languages was published by Playwrights Canada and by the Canadian Theatre Review (April 2019) and received both critical and scholarly acclaim. In 2023, his award-winning play Bros/Les gars speaks about experiences of gay immigrants to Canada and questions the hospitality of “Canadian culture”. In 2023, it premiered in Saskatoon at La Troupe du jour and received the Excellence in New Work Award (Saskatoon Theatre Awards 2023).