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Audrey Dwyer

Playwright / Screenwriter

Audrey Dwyer is a multi-disciplinary artist with over twenty years of experience working as an Actor, Director, Playwright, Teacher, Artistic Director, Facilitator and Mentor.
  
She wrote and directed Calpurnia, which was produced by Nightwood Theatre and Sulong Theatre. She wrote The D Cut, a six-episode series produced by Shaftesbury Films. The multiple award-winning series is now on Crave (Canada) and Shaftesbury’s KindaTV Youtube channel. She is one of the winners of the CBC Creative Relief Fund to create a television pilot called The Gordons. She wrote Come Home – The Legend of Daddy Hall for the Tarragon, which they staged in 2024. She wrote her first libretto called Backstage at Carnegie Hall which was produced in 2022. She has been commissioned by Nightswimming Theatre to write The Generations, an epic five-hour drama about the legacy of a Black family over many thousands of years.

She graduated from The National Theatre School of Canada in 2001.

Works by Audrey Dwyer

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Calpurnia

By Audrey Dwyer

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Published Works

Audrey Dwyer’s gutsy new comedy will leave you cringing in your seat as it fearlessly confronts the racism and inequality festering under the surface of liberal Toronto.

Toronto Life

(Praise for Calpurnia:)

…a highly relevant and provocative look at racism, classism, and sexism in a story that is at times humorous and at most times painful and uncomfortable in the best possible way. The performances are dynamic, as is the writing, making this a show that is well worth the watch. Calpurnia  is one of those stories that is deeply nuanced and provides much fodder for discussion and debate. It is eye- opening and reveals much about prejudices and ingrained privilege that, in some way, exists in everyone. It’s certainly worth the watch.

Samantha Wu
Mooney On Theatre