Makram Ayache - Shaw Festival Theatre

Makram Ayache
Assistant Director

SHAW 2026: Neil Munro Directing Intern, Assistant Director for One for the Pot, Heartbreak House; 1st season. Makram (he/him) is a director-playwright, performer, and producer based in Toronto. DIRECTING: The Green Line (In Arms Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Factory Theatre); Cleo (TMU x Tarragon Theatre); Small Gods the Musical (Sheridan Theatre); Trojan Girls (associate director, Factory Theatre). PLAYWRITING: The Green Line (Governor General’s Literary Award finalist, Lambda Literary Award winner, Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee, Betty Mitchell Award winner), The Hooves Belonged to the Deer (Globe and Mail Top 10 Production, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award winner), A Witch in Algiers (Dora Mavor Moore Award winner), Harun (Tom Hendry Award winner). HONOURS: Governor General’s Literary Award finalist; Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Drama. REPRESENTATION: Skylar Gray, Gersh Agency.

Also onstage in 2026
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One for the Pot

“Genius is more often found in the cracked pot than the whole one …” – E.B. White

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Heartbreak House

Love, war and wildly inappropriate dinner conversation.

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Sleuth

Think you’ve solved it? Think again.

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