ANNAHIS BASMADJIAN
Class of 2010 Interviewed by Cam Henderson | August 2018
Annahis has taken the path less travelled. No doubt remains in our minds that she is a free spirit and she said as much in her spotlight which follows. She has continued to maintain an academic balance between her study, direction and passion for the arts over the past several years and there are no hints that this is the last stop in her journey. Read on to learn a little bit more about and possibly a little bit from, Annahis:
It’s been nearly 8 years since you graduated from
love with playwriting as a whole. So, I applied and was
Mulgrave in 2011. Can you walk us through where
ultimately accepted into UBC Creative Writing
you’ve been and what led you to where you are right
program in my third year, and carried forward into my
now as the head of Rushed Productions Ltd.?
fourth. Over the course of that program, I had a short play stage read (Bookmarkers) and another produced
It certainly has been a long time though it doesn’t at all
(Fog Lights) at the Brave New Playrites festival, before
feel that way! Well, after I graduated from Mulgrave,
I graduated in my fourth year with a Bachelor of Fine
I was accepted into the Arts Faculty at UBC. There, I
Arts, majoring in Creative Writing.
explored all manner of making art, from painting to photography to acting to writing. Midway through my
Though I sought to pursue a Masters, I decided to take
second year, I enrolled in Bryan Wade’s “Writing for
a year off of academia and explore my prefrered field.
radio and the stage” and fell utterly and completely in
I was hired by the Commerce Community Program to 35
