Andrew Kushnir’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Canadian playwright, co-created The Gay Heritage Project
Is Entertainer 
Writer 
Actor 
Stage actor 
From Canada 
Type Entertainment 
Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Literature 
Gender male
Birth 1980
Age: 40 years

Andrew Kushnir (born 1980) is a Canadian playwright and actor. He is most noted as co-creator with Damien Atkins and Paul Dunn of The Gay Heritage Project, a theatrical show dramatizing aspects of LGBT history which was shortlisted for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2014,

The creative director of Project Humanity, a theatrical organization which uses the arts to raise social awareness, Kushnir specializes in verbatim theatre which addresses social issues by making theatrical presentations out of the real testimonies of people impacted by social issues. His plays have included Captain Princess, foto, The Middle Place, Small Axe, Wormwood and Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope.

He is currently playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre.

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