Hillar Liitoja

Erik Hillar Liitoja (June 18, 1954 – June 2, 2023) was a Canadian playwright and theatre director.^[1] He was most noted for his 1993 play The Last Supper,^[2] which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1994^[3] and was adapted by Cynthia Roberts into the 1994 feature film The Last Supper.^[4]

Hillar Liitoja
Born	Erik Hillar Liitoja (1954-06-18)June 18, 1954
Died	June 2, 2023(2023-06-02) (aged 68)
Occupation	Playwright, theatre director
Notable works	The Last Supper
Notable awards	Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1994)

Trained as a concert pianist, Liitoja founded his own Toronto, Ontario theatre company, DNA Theatre, in the 1980s.^[1] His other plays have included This Is What Happens in Orangeville,^[5] The Panel,^[6] The Deputation,^[1] Sick,^[7] Poundemonium,^[8] Artaud and His Doubles,^[9] Phalanx,^[10] Paula and Karl,^[1] Wit in Love^[1] and I Know and Feel That Fate Is Harsh But I Am So Loathe to Accept This.^[1]

Liitoja won several Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Best Direction of a Play in the Small Theatre division, winning in 1989 for a production of Hamlet,^[11] in 1991 for Sick,^[12] and in 1994 for The Last Supper.^[13]

Liitoja died on June 2, 2023, at the age of 68.^[14]