Author: Kiki Dranias

KIKI DRANIAS is a multi award-winning Hellenic-Canadian poet, playwright, director & producer living in Montreal. Kiki’s debut play GOING UP, an immersive and site-specific theatrical presentation, was performed live for 14 shows in November 2019, on board Elevator #1 at LE 5800 St. Denis, in Montreal. Winning three of the categories, including Outstanding New Text, Outstanding Emerging Playwright & Producer, Outstanding Independent Production, this sold-out inaugural production received in total seven nominations at the 2020 Montreal English Theatre Awards. This playwright’s second theatrical work WHERE IS ANTON is a 40-minute piece that Kiki wrote, produced and also directed. The show was performed live at the 30th Montreal Fringe Festival in June 2021, for six sold-out shows at MainLine Theatre. With primary support from Canada Council for the Arts, Kiki wrote and produced her third play THE LOVE TRIAL, a 75-minute modern Greek tragedy. This hybrid type and immersive theatrical presentation was performed live in front of 500 audience members in December 2021, for seven shows at the Masonic Temple Hall in Montreal. As a poet, Kiki has also authored BLOOD IS BLUE, a well-received poetry collection. To showcase her work and the work of others, this woman artist works under the Purple Divine producing and publishing banner.

Sleepy Bane-Bane

April 3, 2023April 3, 2023 Kiki Dranias

did nothing but wish and cry, wishing baby I were the rivulets streaming from your eyes. so many times. every time i’d believe you had gone i’d bring you back from an empty grave. they’d say, Girl, you cray or you ok? but just crazé en amoré for an imaginary Read more

sabbatical 2022

November 7, 2022November 10, 2022 Kiki Dranias

the glamor and glaze; the love of the dream and all its on-looking haze it’s still there. but the plays; the twisted and funky things their spirits need(ed) to do and say on behalf of those, watching—themselves acting out on that stage: am I drawing this curtain to fade? perhaps Read more

Pride or Bust

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 Kiki Dranias

a mama walks against the wind protecting her baby and its head but the mama looks at me like I was the hurricane instead. i gave her the benefit of the doubt—knowing how much, like the tornado, I have blared and blown! all the while Nas and the Marleys be Read more

bling terms

July 25, 2022July 24, 2022 Kiki Dranias

any core desire or need one may have, we must trust is exactly that: core and with no need to adapt. this thing is inherent of us; why on earth would we set out to adjust something that is such. perfection is flawed. i am going to keep this idea—tattooed in Read more