Suvendrini Lena

Suvendrini Lena is playwright and neurologist living in T'karonto. Her play The Enchanted Loom on the Sri Lankan civil war (Cahoots/Factory Theatre), was nominated for a 2023 Governor General's Award for Drama. Other plays include Dora Award winning Here are the Fragments inspired by the writing Frantz Fanon (Theatre Centre) and Rubble inspired by the work of Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (Aluna Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille). She teaches Neurology and Medicine and the Humanities at U of T and has research interests in Environmental Justice and Anti-Racism in Medical Practice. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph where is working on a novella entitled The Disappearing Subject.