Mirrors
August 6
Mirrors
produced by Nabil Traboulsi
August 6th
Synopsis
A priest in hiding in Occupied France in 1941. A man sheltering in Gaza in 2024. A journalist on the run on Turtle Island in 2041. How do we relate to the plight of people living through the harshest, most destructive events of their time? How does their background and the language they speak affect how we view them? Spanning a hundred years and three continents, Mirrors is an exploration of three humans caught in the grips of the wars of our past, present, and future.
A reading of a work-in-progress written in French, Arabic, and English by Dora-award winning artist Nabil Traboulsi. The reading will be subtitled in English.
meet the team
Nabil Traboulsi (he/him) – Creator & Performer
Nabil Traboulsi is a Lebanese actor and writer born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon and currently based in Toronto, ON. Nabil works on stage and on screen in English, French and Arabic and has worked with a wide range of theatre creators in Canada. He is a Resident Artist and Associate Artistic Producer with ARC, an artist-led company that produces Canadian premieres of international works. For his work in Toronto theatre, he has won 2 Dora Awards and has been nominated 4 times.
Recent stage credits include ARC productions Rockabye, Martyr, Gloria (in association with Crow’s Theatre), Oil. With other companies, he has performed in A Tonic for Desperate Times (Theatre Gargantua), the solo show Homes: A Refugee Story (Grand Theatre), Towards Rebirth (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Entre Deux Mondes (Théâtre La Tangente), La Seconde Surprise de l’Amour, Le Menteur, Les Zinspirés (Théâtre Français de Toronto).
Recent film/TV credits include: Titans (Netflix), The Boys (Amazon), Accused (Fox), Borje: The Journey of a Legend (Viaplay), The Apprentice (dir. Ali Abbasi), and the upcoming Murderbot (AppleTV), 11h11 (Radio-Canada), and the period-horror film Ithaqua (dir. Casey Walker).
Nabil is the recipient of OAC playwriting grants and Mirrors is his first work to be presented in front of an audience.
Makram Ayache (he/him) – Dramaturg
Makram Ayache is a Governor General Literary Award Finalist and award-winning playwright, performer, director, and producer based in Toronto. His playwriting explores representations of queer Arab voices and aims to bridge political struggles to the intimate experiences of the people impacted by them. Ayache was selected as one of six breakthrough artists in Toronto in the Toronto Star in 2023. His play, “The Hooves Belonged to the Deer” was selected as one of 10 best productions in Ontario in 2023 by the Globe and Mail and won an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for “Outstanding Independent Production” in Edmonton in 2023. Previously, His Governor General nominated play “The Green Line” (Downstage and Chromatic Theatre) garnered four Betty Mitchell Award Nominations, winning two including “Outstanding New Play.” Most recently, Ayache has written an adaption of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” titled “A Witch in Algiers” (Shakespeare in the Ruff) which won Outstanding New Play at the Dora Awards in 2025. Alongside writing, Ayache directs, most recently directing the development showcase of “Small Gods the Musical” with Theatre Sheridan and Factory Theatre. Learn more here.
