Muhaddisah

Muhaddisah is an award-winning theatre-maker, actor, and singer who is eager about contemporary realizations of classical and canonized plays. She is a devout experimentalist with a penchant for tragedy and an instinct for wit. She is equally at home on a film/TV set, in a black box theatre, or in a concert hall. During her conservatory training at the University of Toronto Mississauga/Sheridan Institute of Technology, she played Clytemnestra in an immersive production of Aeschylus' "Oresteia" (dir. Tyler J. Seguin) and Janine in Wajdi Mouawad's "Scorched" (dir. Tanisha Sinclair). She co-created and performed in four devised shows. She originated the roles of Grace and Regina in a workshop of David Yee's "Missing, Endangered" (dir. Nina Lee Aquino). She made her American theatre debut in California with the Davis Shakespeare Festival portraying Emilia/M. Brabantio in Toni Morrison's adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello", entitled "Desdemona". She is a series-regular on a soon-to-be released network television show. Muhaddisah is studying directing and adaptation with Robert Icke in a year-long seminar. In 2020 she directed the world premiere of an outdoor production of Euripides' "Alcestis" in a new translation by Professor Emeritus Roger Beck. She created, directed, and music-directed a dance-theatre piece called "Più: a Concertino" which fractured and rearranged classic works of Mozart, Altan, and Rajaton". As the Artistic Director of the UTM EDSS, she produced the most profitable season in its nearly ten-year history while also co-adapting Susan Glaspell's "Trifles". Muhaddisah debuted as a playwright with her solo piece entitled "dixi" produced by Dark Day Monday, where she also originated the titular role. Since then, three of her plays have been produced across three cities. Most recently, "on/the/line" was commissioned by Theatre Oculus in completion of her Digital Creation Residency. To her, the theatre is not the water without which she would perish in days, but the air from whose lack she would last only seconds.