Lawrence Aronovitch is a Canadian playwright and actor based in Ottawa, Ontario.
[5][6] The play, which is a modern gay version of the classic Pygmalion story, has also been produced in Vancouver, British Columbia[7] and has toured in Northern Ireland.
[8][9] Aronovitch's next work, The Lavender Railroad, consists of two related one-act plays, each of which looks at the moral choices required of people living in a totalitarian world in which being gay or lesbian is a capital crime.
The play presents the life of Marie Curie and features a number of historical woman scientists as characters, including Hypatia of Alexandria, Ada Lovelace, and Rosalind Franklin.
[13] His play The Auden Test was presented at Arts Court in Ottawa as part of Just Mingling: A Queer Theatrical Salon in March 2016.