Stephen Orlov is an award-winning dramatist whose plays have been showcased in such major theatre centres as Montreal, Chicago, and London. Stephen co-edited with Palestinian playwright and poet, Samah Sabawi, Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, the first English-language anthology worldwide in any genre of drama, prose or poetry by Jewish and Palestinian writers. His play Sperm Count was published in Double Exposure, which won the biennial Patrick O'Neill Award for best Canadian play anthology of 2016 and 2017. Stephen’s other plays include Isolated Incident (with Rahul Varma), Salaam-Shalom, Bow Ties: A Dramatic Encounter between Words and Music (with Karen Kaderavek), and Freeze, his box office hit at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre, published in 2016 by Guernica Editions. Teesri Duniya Theatre will stage in November of 2018 the world premiere of his new play, Birthmark, and