[1] He was most noted for his 1993 play The Last Supper,[2] which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1994[3] and was adapted by Cynthia Roberts into the 1994 feature film The Last Supper.
[4] Trained as a concert pianist, Liitoja founded his own Toronto, Ontario theatre company, DNA Theatre, in the 1980s.
[1] His other plays have included This Is What Happens in Orangeville,[5] The Panel,[6] The Deputation,[1] Sick,[7] Poundemonium,[8] Artaud and His Doubles,[9] Phalanx,[10] Paula and Karl,[1] Wit in Love[1] and I Know and Feel That Fate Is Harsh But I Am So Loathe to Accept This.
[1] Liitoja won several Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Best Direction of a Play in the Small Theatre division, winning in 1989 for a production of Hamlet,[11] in 1991 for Sick,[12] and in 1994 for The Last Supper.
[13] Liitoja died on June 2, 2023, at the age of 68.