About Hillar Liitoja
Lived 1954 – 2023 (aged 68–69). Hillar Liitoja was a writer.
Erik Hillar Liitoja (June 18, 1954 – June 2, 2023) was a Canadian playwright and theatre director. He was most noted for his 1993 play The Last Supper, which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1994 and was adapted by Cynthia Roberts into the 1994 feature film The Last Supper.
Trained as a concert pianist, Liitoja founded his own Toronto, Ontario theatre company, DNA Theatre, in the 1980s. The Panel, The Deputation, Poundemonium, Artaud and His Doubles, Phalanx, Paula and Karl, in 1991 for Sick, and in 1994 for The Last Supper.
Liitoja died on June 2, 2023, at the age of 68.
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Who was Hillar Liitoja?
Canadian playwright and theatre director of Estonian origin (1954-2023)
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Hillar Liitoja was born on 18 June 1954.
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Hillar Liitoja died in 2023.
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Hillar Liitoja was a writer.
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