Camyar Chai has worked in theatre and film for over twenty years. He is the founder of Vancouver’s acclaimed Neworld Theatre. He has worked as a freelance actor, director, and writer, and has also engaged in arts education. In addition to writing plays, Camyar has also written librettos for opera. An award winning theatre maker, he received his Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of British Columbia.Talonbooks has published his Ali and Ali: The Deportation Hearings and Adventures of Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil, both of which he co-wrote with Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef.