Gural, Altaire
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Altaire is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, The Writers Union of Canada, and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA).
She has both directed and coached actors (youth and adult) who have gone on to star in film and television: Dream Scenario for A24 (TIFF), Fear Street/Prom Queen (Netflix), Nika & Madison (TIFF), BET (Netflix), The Bearded Girl, Believer, Welcome to Derry (CRAVE),This Time (Best Actress at the Florence Film Festival), You Can Live Forever (Tribeca), DC's Titans, Shazam, Clarice, Ginny & Georgia, Heartland, Hudson & Rex, Nurses, Northern Rescue, Frontier, October Faction (Netflix), Locke & Key (Netflix), Burden Of Truth and Coroner (CBC), Circuit Breakers (Apple tv), Left For Dead:The Ashley Reeves Story and The Good Father for Lifetime, Castle In The Ground (feature@ TIFF), Flint, Emerald Code, Degrassi, Once Upon A Time, Break Any Spell (Blood In The Snow Festival), Life With Boys, Motives and Murders, The Railway Children (Mirvish), and the Toronto Fringe.
Altaire's students have also been accepted into LAMDA and RADA, NTS and other Canadian and American institutions.
Altaire has adapted and directed various plays for youth: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Magician's Nephew, Through The Looking Glass, and others.
Her original play, Forgotten (a re-imagining of Peter Pan taking place some years after Wendy leaves Neverland, and with a cast of 30+ youth and adults) was produced at The Academy Theatre in Lindsay, Ontario in 2014, and has since been performed by numerous companies and schools around the world. Her novel of the same name was published in 2024 (Bannister Press) and has since been optioned for television.
Her short stories have appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Matters of Time, Kawartha Lakes Stories, and Other: the 2024 Speculative Fiction Anthology.
Nominated for Best Director for PROOF (EODL/also nominated for Best Production).
In 2024 Altaire also directed the one act U Can't Touch This for Women At Plays (Red Sandcastle Theatre/Toronto).