Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham (born 1974) is a Canadian theatre director, most noted as the artistic director of the Crow's Theatre company in Toronto, Ontario since 2007.^[1]

Originally from Montreal, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Toronto and the National Theatre School of Canada.^[1] He was subsequently one of the founding partners in Go Chicken Go, a theatre company of recent NTS graduates.^[2] Productions he directed for Go Chicken Go included Peter Handke's Offending the Audience,^[2] Anton Piatigorsky's Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension,^[3] Darren O'Donnell's Boxhead,^[4] and Abraham's own adaptation of Georg Büchner's Lenz.^[1]

In 2001 he was the director of Kristen Thomson's stage play I, Claudia.^[5] He subsequently also directed a film adaptation, which premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival^[6] and was named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list.^[7]

He took over artistic direction of Crow's Theatre in 2007, following the retirement of the company's founding artistic director Jim Millan.^[8]

He is married to actress Liisa Repo-Martell.^[9]

Awards

Award	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref(s)
Dora Mavor Moore Awards	1999	Best Direction, Independent Theatre	Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension	Won	[10]
		Outstanding Set Design, Independent Theatre		Nominated	[11]
		Outstanding New Play or Musical, Independent Theatre	Lenz	Nominated
	2001	Best Direction, Independent Theatre	Boxhead	Nominated
	2003	Best Direction, General Theatre	Russell Hill	Nominated	[12]
	2006	Best Direction, Independent Theatre	Cringeworthy	Nominated	[13]
	2007	Best Direction, General Theatre	Insomnia	Nominated	[14]
	2009		I, Claudia	Nominated	[15]
		Best Direction, Independent Theatre	Eternal Hydra	Won	[16]
	2013	Best Direction, General Theatre	The Little Years	Won	[17]
			Someone Else	Nominated
	2020		Julius Caesar	Nominated	[18]
	2024		The Master Plan	Nominated	[19]
	2024	Outstanding Creative Direction (Director), Musical Theatre Division	Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812	Won	[20]
Gemini Awards	2005	Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series	I, Claudia	Won	[21]
Siminovitch Prize in Theatre	2001	Protégé	Self	Won	[22]
	2013	Recipient		Won	[23]