BIOGRAPHY
Lianna Makuch is a second generation Ukrainian Canadian theatre artist. Lianna has enjoyed a diverse career working as an actor, creator, and theatre instructor. She is the Outreach and Communications Manager with Punctuate Theatre, and co-Artistic Producer of Pyretic Productions. Lianna has also co-founded, manages, and teaches at a children’s summer theatre camp, Spark! Youth Camp, which provides affordable arts education to youth in Edmonton’s Alberta Avenue Community. She is the playwright and principle performer in Barvinok which has garnered her awards and recognition from across the country and internationally. Lianna is also the 2020 REACH Grant recipient, which is supporting her as she develops this story into a feature length screenplay. She was recently the first Canadian artist-in-residence with the IZOLYATSIA cultural Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she began development of her new play which she is thrilled to continue developing as part of this Playwrights' Unit. Lianna is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of Alberta.
