Alexander Steele Zonjic
ECD 2022
Alexander Steele Zonjic is an emerging playwright and actor. He is also a frightened, anxious millennial with no social media presence and a good poker face. At 8 years old, burglars ransacked his family home in Windsor, Ontario, while he slept, and ever since then he’s been afraid to wake up to find his world unjustly changed, and his place within it uncertain. In his free time he enjoys wrestling with the quotidian concerns and controversies of the present (and how they may repeat the past or reshape our future), a bright-night-light (due to aforementioned home invasion), and struggling to balance a good sense of humour with an overwhelming sense of doom. Through the theatre he seeks to understand, embrace and face his fears by endeavouring to engage in uncomfortable conversations in the name of truth and growth, practicing vulnerability in his thoughts and feelings, being brave enough to have his mind changed in public, and potentially say the wrong thing. Championing the ugly and the honest, Alexander hopes to create work that challenges, while also inspiring transformative justice, empathy, and a will to live together.
Alexander is a graduate of the X University Theatre School where he was awarded the Lou Taube Memorial Award and has also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Ecole Philippe Gaulier. His debut play Enola_Gay earned him the Robert Beardsley Award for Emerging Playwrights from the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and an Honourable Mention in the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition.

