Ahad Raza Mir Nominated For Hamlet At Betty Mitchell Awards

Ahad Raza Mir is the first Pakistani to play the iconic character written by William Shakespeare in a professional production set-up in Canada’s Vertigo Theatre, and has now been nominated by The Betty Mitchell Awards in the 'Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama' category. 

The 22nd Annual Betty Mitchell Awards, which aims to recognise excellence in Calgary's Professional Theatre Community, released the list of 2018-19 nominees last week.

Hamlet has also been nominated in the 'Outstanding Sound Design or Composition' category.

The awards will be held on June 24 2019.

After almost three years Ahad Raza Mir went back to Calgary to reconnect with theatre by starring in a new production of Hamlet: A Ghost Story. Directed by Craig Hall and adapted by Anna Cummer who crafted a spookier, supernatural twist on the Shakespeare classic. Hamlet isn’t the only play he’s done; he has also performed in The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.