Lianna Makuch
Artistic Associate

Portrait of a woman with long, curly brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a light-colored top.

Lianna Makuch is a second generation Ukrainian Canadian theatre artist. She is as an actor, creator, instructor, and is an Artistic Producer with Pyretic Productions. Lianna has managed outreach and communications for several arts organizations, and is a co-founder and creation instructor at Spark! Youth Camp, which provides affordable arts education to youth in Edmonton’s Alberta Avenue Community. She is the playwright and principal performer in Barvinok (Pyretic Productions/Punctuate! Theatre), which was nominated for four Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production, won the ACUA-URDC Award (2018), and was most recently honoured with a Leadership Award from both the National and Provincial level Ukrainian Canadian Congresses. Lianna is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of Alberta.