Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director.She was born in 1959 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 (2001)

[edit] External links

• INTERVIEW WITH DJANET SEARS
• Djanet Sears
• An Interview with Djanet Sears