• Acha Bacha is a love letter to all queer and trans South Asians who have endured pain from their family and/or the world.
• Bilal began writing the play after they were sexually assaulted, using it as a way to understand if their mother would ever think they were a good person after knowing what happened.

À propos des auteurs

Baig, Zaiba

Zaiba Baig (she/they) is a writer, actor, and producer for stage and screen, as well as a workshop developer and facilitator for art-focused non-profits. Baig’s published works include her first play, Acha Bacha (2020, nominated for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writer’s Trust of Canada), and an anthology of monologues they co-edited for queer/trans artists titled This Is Beyond (2023). Baig was a co-creator, executive producer, and lead actor in her Peabody Award–winning series Sort Of (2021–2023), for which Baig received the Canadian Screen Award for comedy writing and performance, as well as a Gotham Award nomination for performance in a new series. Baig has facilitated creative writing and playwriting programs for trans artists, BIPOC artists, and trans youth, including Trans Gemmes (2019–2020), Paprika Festival’s Playwrights Unit (2019–2023), Being Me (2023), and Dialogue Dolls (2023).

La Mackerel, Kama

Kama La Mackerel is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, educator, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance, photography, installations, textiles, digital art and literature. Their art practice is intertextual and intertextural. They have exhibited and performed their work internationally and their writing in English, French and Kreol has appeared in publications both online and in print. Their debut poetry collection ZOM-FAM was published by Metonymy Press in 2020.