About the company
Minor Punctuations Theatre is a Toronto-based contemporary theatre company dedicated to playwriting, performance, and the creation of original theatre and performance productions. Working across workshops and full productions, the company supports emerging and early-career artists and creates space for new work to develop between text, body, and presence.
Founded by playwright and theatre-maker Aylin Oyan Salahshoor, the company is shaped by diasporic ways of working—where language carries memory, displacement informs form, and making work is both an artistic and political act. These perspectives inform Minor Punctuations’ commitment to process, care, and experimentation.
About the company
Minor Punctuations Theatre is a Toronto-based contemporary theatre company dedicated to playwriting, performance, and the creation of original theatre and performance productions. Working across workshops and full productions, the company supports emerging and early-career artists and creates space for new work to develop between text, body, and presence.
Founded by playwright and theatre-maker Aylin Oyan Salahshoor, the company is shaped by diasporic ways of working—where language carries memory, displacement informs form, and making work is both an artistic and political act. These perspectives inform Minor Punctuations’ commitment to process, care, and experimentation.
We Exists
Minor Punctuations Theatre creates space for voices, bodies, and stories that insist on presence, even when visibility is precarious. Through playwriting and acting workshops, staged readings, and the production of original theatre and performance works, the company cultivates environments where artists can test ideas, take risks, and allow work to unfold without pressure toward immediacy or completion.
Attentive to subtle shifts, pauses, and ruptures in contemporary performance, Minor Punctuations contributes to Toronto’s theatre ecology by centering new writing, collaborative creation, and the ongoing labor of making space.
We Exists
Minor Punctuations Theatre creates space for voices, bodies, and stories that insist on presence, even when visibility is precarious. Through playwriting and acting workshops, staged readings, and the production of original theatre and performance works, the company cultivates environments where artists can test ideas, take risks, and allow work to unfold without pressure toward immediacy or completion.
Attentive to subtle shifts, pauses, and ruptures in contemporary performance, Minor Punctuations contributes to Toronto’s theatre ecology by centering new writing, collaborative creation, and the ongoing labor of making space.
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Minor Punctuations Theatre - About the company
Minor Punctuations Theatre is a Toronto-based contemporary theatre company dedicated to playwriting, performance, and the creation of original theatre and performance productions. Working across workshops and full productions, the company supports emerging and early-career artists and creates space for new work to develop between text, body, and presence.
Founded by playwright and theatre-maker Aylin Oyan Salahshoor, the company is shaped by diasporic ways of working—where language carries memory, displacement informs form, and making work is both an artistic and political act. These perspectives inform Minor Punctuations’ commitment to process, care, and experimentation.
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We Exists
Minor Punctuations Theatre creates space for voices, bodies, and stories that insist on presence, even when visibility is precarious. Through playwriting and acting workshops, staged readings, and the production of original theatre and performance works, the company cultivates environments where artists can test ideas, take risks, and allow work to unfold without pressure toward immediacy or completion.
Attentive to subtle shifts, pauses, and ruptures in contemporary performance, Minor Punctuations contributes to Toronto’s theatre ecology by centering new writing, collaborative creation, and the ongoing labor of making space.
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Aylin Oyan Salahshoor - Artistic Director
Aylin (Oyan) Salahshoor, a performer and playwright, currently serves as the Artistic Director of Minor Punctuation Theatre Company. She has actively pursued her passion for theatre in Toronto while concurrently working towards a Ph.D. degree in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. Her recent play is scheduled to be on stage at Toronto Fringe Festival 2024 and Hamilton Fringe Festival. She has performed in several theatre productions in Toronto, most recently in English (Soulpepper Theatre and Segal Centre) the 9428 (Toronto Fringe Festival – July 2022), Heart of a Dog (Next Stage – Toronto Fringe Festival, January 2022), The Monster I learned to Love (Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival 2020), Swim Team (Theatre Centre, November 2019), and Sisyphus and Death (Alumnae Theatre, May 2019). She has also appeared in several production of Nowadays Theatre performing in Farsi, The Dance of Torn Papers (Dance Maker, November 2018) and The Only Way Possible (Ignatieff Theatre, June 2018).
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Amin Sheykhi
Amin Sheykhi is a producer and musician working across theatre and performance in Iran and Canada. Trained as a setar player, his musical practice informs a producing approach grounded in rhythm, listening, and collaboration. He has performed as a musician in multiple theatre productions, contributing live and composed music that bridges Iranian musical traditions with contemporary performance contexts.
As a producer, Amin has supported the development and presentation of new work, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary and diasporic theatre. His producing credits include Terrace (Toronto), Presence of an Absence, and Far-Flung Peoples, where he has worked closely with artists from development through production, managing logistics, coordination, and creative support.
Amin’s work is shaped by a commitment to collaborative process, cultural specificity, and care-based production practices. Moving between music and producing, he brings a nuanced understanding of performance-making that prioritizes both artistic integrity and sustainable working environments.
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Critics & Guests
“Salahshoor provides a riveting central performance as the reserved girl, lost in a new world with a foreign language and a seemingly impenetrable culture.”
“Aylin Oyan Salahshoor gives a sweetly compelling performance as 18-year-old Goli, for whom English will be a ticket to something and somewhere she’s not quite able to conceptualize yet.”
“The youngest and by far the most compassionate and engaging is the smart and kind Goli, tenderly and delicately portrayed by the excellent Aylin Oyan Salahshoor.”