Art Babayants

Director & Playwright

Art Babayants/ Արտ Բաբայանց is an award-winning Canadian-Armenian theatre artist who has worked with professional, semi-professional and amateur theatre makers in Canada and around the world. He founded his first theatre company in 2004 and almost reluctantly started a directing career, which eventually comprised musicals, contemporary plays, opera and devised performances. Since 2012, he has been running Toronto Laboratory Theatre - a theatre collective focusing on the work of first generation immigrants to Canada, multilingual theatre, and interdisciplinary creation. Since 2017, he has also been teaching acting, directing, and dramaturgy in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec.