Adjani Poirier is a multidisciplinary theatre artist who sometimes likes to experiment with sound art and radio. She is interested in creating work that explores the beauty and the ugly of the human experience, and is drawn to stories that reveal the complexity of navigating a world where systemic inequalities oppress yet love and connection still seep through the cracks, strong and fierce, giving us life. Their writing uses magical realism to explore ideas of home, queer desire and how the subconscious influences our relationship to each other and our physical surroundings.
Recent plays include Sinkhole (or six ways to disappear), the second-place winner of the Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Emerging Playwright Award; Scorpio Moon, which was featured in Centaur Theatre’s 2022 Queer Reading Series; and Celebrity Dogs, part of Boca del Lupo’s national project Plays2Perform@Home.
With the support of MAI’s alliance program, Adjani will be developing their new play One Spectacular Moment. Historical fiction meets magical realism in this piece that explores the connections between the historic Black community of Africville, urban renewal, Black feminism, the current housing crisis in Canadian cities and QTBIPOC activist movements of the 2010-20’s.
Adjani is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada where she studied playwriting and has a BFA from Concordia University in Theatre and Development. They currently live and create in their hometown of Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
Photo credit: Alex Tran