Fatuma Adar

Playwright

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Fatuma Adar (she/her) is a Somali-Canadian writer based in Toronto. She was long-listed in CBC’s Creative Nonfiction Prize and profiled in Up Close: Young Black Women Making Canada Better. In 2017, she performed in the third cohort of The Bars Workshop at the Public Theater in New York City. She’s won two Canadian Screen Awards (21 Black Futures, The Legacy Awards). Fatuma wrote the book, music and lyrics to Dixon Road which won a Dora Award for Outstanding New Musical. Her critically acclaimed one woman musical comedy show She’s Not Special is available now on wherever you stream music.

Published Works

New musical Dixon Road is an extraordinary achievement and exaltation of Toronto’s diasporic communities

TORONTO STAR

Adar is a major talent with a winning personality, a piercing intellect combined with acute self-knowledge. Adar is funny and has a quick wit and a fine ability to write songs in a wide range of styles.

Stage Door
Fatuma Adar might be Toronto’s response to Lin-Manuel Miranda
Intermission Magazine