Zorana Sadiq

Zorana is an award-winning Pakistani Canadian actor, playwright, and musician whose multidisciplinary talent spans different types of performance, from theatre and musicals to chamber music and modern opera. Her plays MixTape (nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards) and Comfort Food have both been produced by Crow’s Theatre, with subsequent tours to the Grand, the National Arts Centre, and Here for Now. Her verbatim libretto, The Great Pause, was set to music by Suzy Wilde for Community Music Schools of Toronto, where she was a member of the voice faculty for eighteen years. She was selected for the 2024 Banff Playwrights Lab and served as Playwright-in-Residence at Crow’s Theatre in 2020. Zorana has also written for CBC Radio’s classical radio program, Tempo, and created an audio drama version of MixTape for CBC’s PlayMe podcast. Sadiq has worked with Crow’s Theatre, Coal Mine Theatre, Factory Theatre, Cahoots Theatre, Necessary Angel, Soulpepper, Canadian Rep Theatre, and Young People’s Theatre, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Calgary Symphony, and Boston Musica Viva.