Raoul Bhaneja is one of Canada's most recognizable stage and screen actors with extensive credits in both mediums, a Gemini and Canadian Comedy Award nominee and Christopher Plummer Artistic Fellowship Award winner at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, UK. A Maple Blues Award winner as leader of RAOUL and THE BIG TIME he is also a celebrated blues musician and performs in BLUE STANDARD, his jazz duo opposite pianist Jesse Whiteley. He is Co-Founder of Hope and Hell Theatre Company which has produced a number of major productions since forming in 1995 including almost twenty years of the international touring production of Hamlet (solo), directed by longtime collaborator Robert Ross Parker. As a playwright Raoul has worked primarily in collective creation with Barndance Live! and Booze Days in a Dry Country both at The Blyth Festival directed by Paul Thompson, Standing Female Nude with The Storm Collective and is currently developing Ghosts of Corktown at Soulpepper Theatre. His autobiographical hybrid concert/musical Life, Death and The Blues produced with Theatre Passe Muraille and directed by Eda Holmes, toured across Canada with over 100 performances for 20,000 patrons and was nominated for a Dora Award for Best New Musical.
Raoul Bhaneja
Playwright
Works by Raoul Bhaneja
