

Bio
Bilingual Actor, director & performance artist based in Ottawa. Dorian received the Waterloo Region Art Fund 2022 & the Newcomers Toronto Art Council Mentorship Grant 2019. With a BA in Theatre & MA in Performance Art, he explores how taboo regulates the socio-cultural fabric. Shine participated in festivals like The Belgrade International Theatre Festival & The Buenos Aires Performance Art Biennale.
Dorian Shine as Jean Genet
With Dorian Shine
Dorian Shine as Jean Genet
Acting Jean Genet
"The Tribunal"
Tactics - Sept 2022
The court is in now session with Judge, Jean Genet. The case: massage therapist Alex's increasing curiosity about Waleed’s physical ailments develops into a strange intimacy, which leaves her professionally compromised.


Playwright
"The devil's got fever"
Region of Waterloo Art Fund
Work in Progress
A dark disturbing comedy
Work in progress, written during Write or Flight and selected to be part of Unhinged Festival of Disturbing Theatre in Kitchener Waterloo.