“A STANDOUT”
- Gwen Caughell, intermission magazine
“EXCEPTIONAL”
- Alan Cranston, Three Weeks Edinburgh
“PERFORMANCE AGILITY OF THE HIGHEST DEGREE”
- Georgia Stone, Binge Fringe
“MAHARJAN EST INOUBLIABLE”
- JAcqueline van de geer, arts et culturE
“FANTASTICALLY TALENTED”
- YANIK COMEAU, THÉÂTRALITÉS
Lior Maharjan is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist working internationally and bilingually. Story, community and collaboration are central in Lior’s practice. She has mentored emerging creators at programs like Artista and Playbright. Lior’s the recipient of the CAEA’s 2024 Emerging Artist Award. She is Past-President of the Quebec Drama Federation.
Lior stars in the first instalment of George Mihalka’s anthology thriller series, Ominous, and she appears in J Stevens’ debut feature, Really Happy Someday (TIFF 2024 premiere). You can hear her narration in The Downloaded 2 (Audible) where she plays opposite Brendan Fraser as his love interest. Lior played 27 characters in Wajdi Mouawad’s Alphonse at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe. Other dramatic credits include Pride and Prejudice, Landscape Grindr, All I Want for Christmas and La Somnambule. In the 2025-26 season, she’s on stage in Le roi Lear at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier and in Le langage clair at Théâtre Prospero. Lior enjoys voicing dubs, animations and videogames.
Lior’s theatrical adaptation of From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (commissioned by Geordie) received eight META nominations including Outstanding New Text and Production. She’s written for indie videogames and she works as a script editor, translator and dramaturge. Published works include Our Tree (Boca del Lupo and Centaur) and an essay recently published in This is Beyond: A Time Capsule of Queer Experience (Playwrights Canada Press).
Lior is a co-founder of bigT, a performance collective centering trans/GNC narratives, where she has directed and written experimental broadcasts and plays. As part of the 2020 Emerging Creators Unit at Buddies in Bad Times, bigT created E-TRANSFERS, an experimental livesteam that raised over $2500 in viewer donations for two trans-led grassroots organizations. bigT has been developing an XR project focused on gender euphoria while in residence at Theatre Passe-Muraille.
