Photo by Aleksandar Antonjevic
MixTape
by Zorana Sadiq
The first thing we do in life is make sound. For writer, performer, and musician Zorana Sadiq, sound is our first, last, and most influential sense. In the world premiere of her new solo show MixTape, directed by Crow’s Theatre Artistic Director Chris Abraham, Sadiq invites her audience into a life experienced through sounds and an obsession with making them.
From Neil Diamond to Kate Bush, from show tunes to Mozart, and from squeaky oven doors to the thwap of a heartbeat, Sadiq curates the ultimate mixtape for life; part memoir, part scientific inquiry, and part love affair with listening.
Cast & Creative
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Zorana Sadiq
Playwright & Performer
Zorana Sadiq is an award-winning Toronto-based actor, playwright and classical musician. A multidisciplinary artist of Pakistani descent, her work spans different types of performance from theatre, verbatim theatre, radio and television to chamber music, modern opera and new music.
Performance: A Sense of Place (Music Gallery), MixTape (Crow’s Theatre-Dora Mavor Moore nomination for Outstanding Performance, Grand Theatre), Into the Woods (STC), Wildfire (Factory Theatre), Towards Youth (Crow’s Theatre), CHILD-ish (Summerworks Lab), Eleven Moons (Boston Musica Viva), Bend it Like Beckham (Starvox), Helen’s Necklace (Canadian Rep Theatre), , The Enchanted Loom (Cahoots Theatre), , Sultans of the Street (Young People’s Theatre- Dora Mavor Moore for Best Ensemble), as well as appearances with Necessary Angel Theatre, Soulpepper’s Global Cabaret, Vancouver’s Turningpoint Ensemble, Soundstreams Canada, The Tanglewood Music Centre, Bad New Days, Banff Summer Arts Festival, Calgary Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Boston Musica Viva.
Television: Strays, In the Dark, Designated Survivor, Kim's Convenience, The Mulroneys, Burnt Toast.
Writing: Sadiq is the recipient of a Creative Development Grant from the Canada Council and a Creative Residency Grant from the Ontario Arts Council. She has written the verbatim text for a large musical work, The Great Pause which is currently being scored and slated for performance in 2023. Sadiq wrote and guest-hosted 10 episodes of Tempo on CBC Music in the last two years.