Chris Abraham (born 1974) is a Canadian theatre director, most noted as the artistic director of the Crow's Theatre company in Toronto, Ontario since 2007.[1]
Originally from Montreal, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Toronto and the National Theatre School of Canada.[1] He was subsequently one of the founding partners in Go Chicken Go, a theatre company of recent NTS graduates.[2] Productions he directed for Go Chicken Go included Peter Handke's Offending the Audience,[2] Anton Piatigorsky's Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension,[3] Darren O'Donnell's Boxhead,[4] and Abraham's own adaptation of Georg Büchner's Lenz.[1]
In 2001 he was the director of Kristen Thomson's stage play I, Claudia.[5] He subsequently also directed a film adaptation, which premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival[6] and was named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list.[7]
He took over artistic direction of Crow's Theatre in 2007, following the retirement of the company's founding artistic director Jim Millan.[8]
He is married to actress Liisa Repo-Martell.[9]
Award | Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref(s) |
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Dora Mavor Moore Awards | 1999 | Best Direction, Independent Theatre | Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension | [10] | |
Outstanding Set Design, Independent Theatre | [11] | ||||
Outstanding New Play or Musical, Independent Theatre | Lenz | ||||
2001 | Best Direction, Independent Theatre | Boxhead | |||
2003 | Best Direction, General Theatre | Russell Hill | [12] | ||
2006 | Best Direction, Independent Theatre | Cringeworthy | [13] | ||
2007 | Best Direction, General Theatre | Insomnia | [14] | ||
2009 | I, Claudia | [15] | |||
Best Direction, Independent Theatre | Eternal Hydra | [16] | |||
2013 | Best Direction, General Theatre | The Little Years | [17] | ||
Someone Else | |||||
2020 | Julius Caesar | [18] | |||
2024 | The Master Plan | [19] | |||
Gemini Awards | 2005 | Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series | I, Claudia | [20] | |
Siminovitch Prize in Theatre | 2001 | Protégé | Self | [21] | |
2013 | Recipient | [22] |