Makram Ayache
Pronouns: He/Him
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Website: https://www.makramayache.com
Agent: Skyler Gray
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Photographer: Shane D'Costa
Makram Ayache is a Governor General Literary Award Finalist, Lambda Literary Award winning, and Dora award-winning playwright, performer, director, and producer based in Toronto. His playwriting explores representations of queer Arab voices and aims to bridge political struggles to the intimate experiences of the people impacted by them. Ayache’s work was named as a Canadian culture maker who defined 2025 by the CBC and he also won New York City’s Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Drama in the same year. His play, The Hooves Belonged to the Deer was selected as one of 10 best productions in Ontario in 2023 by the Globe and Mail and won an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for “Outstanding Independent Production” in Edmonton in 2023. Previously, His Governor General nominated play The Green Line (Downstage and Chromatic Theatre) garnered four Betty Mitchell Award Nominations, winning two including “Outstanding New Play.” His play A Witch in Algiers (Shakespeare in the Ruff) garnered the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2025. Most recently, his Toronto production of The Green Line garnered seven Dora Award nominations. Alongside writing, Ayache directs and performs. He is represented by Skyler Gray at Gersh Agency. Learn more at www.makramayache.com.
