Djanet Sears
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Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director.
Born in England to a Guyanese father and a Jamaican mother, Sears was raised in England and in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her birth name was Janet — she added the D when she came across a town called Djanet on a trip to Africa.
Her play Harlem Duet won many Canadian awards, including four Dora Mavor Moore Awards and a Governor General's Award for drama.
In addition to her writing, Sears also acts in theatre and film productions. She was also a founding member of Obsidian Theatre, a Toronto theatre company that specializes in African and Caribbean Canadian drama, and is a professor at the University of Toronto.
[edit] Plays
- Afrika Solo (1987)
- Harlem Duet (1997) (1998 Governor General's Award for English-language Drama)
- The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (2002)
