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Alberta Theatre Projects
Alberta Theatre Projects ("ATP") is a professional, not-for-profit, Canadian theatre company, founded in 1972 by Lucille Wagner and Douglas Riske, currently based out of the Martha Cohen Theatre in Arts Commons, in Calgary, Alberta. The company is well-known in Canada and internationally for its development of new, Canadian plays and the art of dramaturgy. Founded by Lucille Wagner and Douglas Riske, ATP started as a children's theatre company in 1972 specializing in historical plays and has grown into one of the largest producers of new plays in Canada. Originally based in the 198 seat Canmore Opera House at Calgary's Heritage Park, in 1985 the company moved to its current home, the 419-seat Georgian-style Martha Cohen Theatre in Calgary's downtown core. It is currently one of 7 resident arts companies in Arts Commons (formerly known as the Calgary Centre for the Performing Arts), a facility designed by Theatre Project Consultants of London, England, and the original acoust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonprofit Organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in contrast with an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a Profit (accounting), profit for its owners. A nonprofit is subject to the non-distribution constraint: any revenues that exceed expenses must be committed to the organization's purpose, not taken by private parties. An array of organizations are nonprofit, including some political organizations, schools, business associations, churches, social clubs, and consumer cooperatives. Nonprofit entities may seek approval from governments to be Tax exemption, tax-exempt, and some may also qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions, but an entity may incorporate as a nonprofit entity without securing tax-exempt status. Key aspects of nonprofits are accountability, trustworth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Rooke
Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2002, Rooke championed ''The Stone Angel'' by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of ''Canada Reads''. Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Bibliography Approximately 350 short stories published; *''Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed'' — 1968 *''Vault'' — 1973 *''Krokodile'' — 1973 *''Sword/Play'' — 1974 *''The Love Parlour'' — 1977 *''The Broad Back of the Angel'' — 1977 *''Cry Evil'' — 1980 *''Fat Woman'' — 1980 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) *''Death Suite'' — 1981 *''The Magician in Love'' &mdash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Fraser
Brad Fraser (born June 28, 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator.Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof"Fraser, Brad" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', June 2, 2019. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and internationally. His plays typically feature a harsh yet comical view of contemporary life in Canada, including frank depictions of sexuality, drug use and violence. Career Fraser's most noted early play was ''Wolf Boy'';Ray Conlogue, "Wolfboy proves a real howler". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 5, 1984. first staged in Edmonton in 1981, its 1984 production in Toronto by Theatre Passe Muraille was later noted as one of the first significant acting roles for Keanu Reeves. Fraser first came to national and international prominence as a playwright with ''Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love'', an episodically structured play about a group of thirtysomethings trying to find t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Lill
Wendy Lill (born November 2, 1950) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have been performed extensively in theatres across Canada as well as internationally in such countries as Scotland, Denmark and Germany. Many of the plays explore the divide between the powerful and the oppressed, exploring, for example, the racism and abuse suffered by Canada's indigenous peoples, issues faced by people with disabilities, child sexual abuse and the struggle for women's rights.McNulty, Jim. "Trading her plays for politics: Dartmouth MP makes many sacrifices to lobby on behalf of disabled." Halifax ''Daily News'', July 24, 1998. Four of her plays were nominated for Governor General's Awards. ''Sisters'', which dramatizes the human devastation caused by a convent-run, native residential school, received the Labatt's Canadian Play Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival. Lill's adaptati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Clark (playwright)
Sally Clark (born 26 July 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker. Career After moving to Toronto in 1973, Sally Clark served as playwright/dramaturge for Theatre Passe Muraille, the Shaw Festival, Nakai Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Nightwood Theatre. Her plays have received two Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations and a Governor General's Award nomination for ''The Trial of Judith K.'' In 1990 she won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for her play, ''Moo'' (1988). Clark has also written and directed for film. Her film, ''Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman'' (1983), won the Special Prix du Jury at the Henri Langlois Henri Langlois (; 13 November 1914 – 13 January 1977) was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. His film screenings in Paris in the 1950s are often ... International Short Film Festival in France and another of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Massicotte
Stephen Massicotte (born April 18, 1969 in Trenton, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and actor from Calgary, Alberta. Personal life Massicotte is an atheist."I thought the world would be colder when I became an atheist, but afterwards, I felt more wonder about everything, because all this was made without God", says Massicotte. "Love is just a biological function of our evolution. It sounds cold, but at the same time, it's important to remember how wonderful that is. So, I guess I'm still a romantic." Alan Cho interviewing Massicotte,Massicotte thinks your religion is stupid', ''Fast Forward Weekly'', March 5, 2009 (accessed 30 April 2009). Plays *The ''Jedi Handbooks'' trilogy **'' The Boy's Own Jedi Handbook'' **'' The Girls Strike Back'' **'' The Return of the Jedi Handbook'' *''Mary's Wedding'' *'' The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion'' *''The Emperor of Atlantis'' *'' The Last Seduction of Casanova'' *'' Looking After Eden'' *''Pervert'' *''A Farewell to Kings' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieko Ouchi
Mieko Ouchi (born 1969) is a Canadian actress, director and playwright."Ouchi, Mieko" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', June 27, 2018. She is most noted for her play ''The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)'', which won the Carol Bolt Award and was shortlisted for the at the 2004 Governor General's Awards."Local poet, playwright nominated". '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen Murphy (filmmaker)
Colleen Murphy (born 1954 in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) is a Canadian screenwriter, film director and playwright. She is best known for works including her plays ''The December Man'', which won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2007 Governor General's Awards, and ''Beating Heart Cadaver'', which was a shortlisted nominee for the same award at the 1999 Governor General's Awards, and the film '' Termini Station'', for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards."Playwright Colleen Murphy Is Writer-in-Residence" , October 5, 2011. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Griffiths
Linda Pauline Griffiths (7 October 1953 – 21 September 2014) was a Canadian actress and playwright best known for writing and starring in the one woman play ''Maggie and Pierre'', in which she portrayed both Pierre Trudeau and his then-estranged wife, Margaret.Linda Griffiths at . Among her cinematic work, she is best known for her acclaimed, starring role in ''''. Early life Griffiths was born in |
Hannah Moscovitch
Hannah Moscovitch (born June 5, 1978) is a Canadian playwright who rose to national prominence in the 2000s. She is best known for her plays ''East of Berlin'', ''This Is War'', "Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story", and '' Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes'', for which she received the 2021 Governor General's Award for English-language drama. Life and career Today based in Toronto and Halifax, she was born in Ottawa. Her father, Allan Moscovitch, is a social policy professor at Carleton University. Her mother, Julie White, is a labour researcher. Both have long been active in left wing politics. Moscovitch's father is Jewish, of Romanian and Ukrainian background, while her mother is from a Christian background (of English and Irish ancestry). Moscovitch was "raised as an atheist", and has said that there is "implicitly Jewish sensibility" to her plays. She studied at the National Theatre School in the acting stream. Moscovitch gained considerable notice for two short plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan MacLeod
Joan MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright.Joan MacLeod Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, 2013. She is best known for her award-winning plays of the 1990s, particularly ''Amigo's Blue Guitar'' (1990) and ''The Hope Slide'' (1993). Raised in North Vancouver, MacLeod studied creative writing at the and the . She later joined the playwrights unit at the |
Ronnie Burkett
Ronnie Burkett, OC is a Canadian puppeteer, best known for his original theatrical plays for adults, performed with marionettes. Burkett, who hails from Medicine Hat, was the puppeteer for Ralph on the TV Ontario series '' Harriet's Magic Hats'' during seasons three and four. He was also credited on two TV shows; Chicken Minute and Little Star. Career After winning a regional Emmy Award in 1979 for the puppets in "Cinderrabbit" on PBS in the US, Burkett formed his own theatre company in Alberta in 1986. His early works included ''Fool's Edge'', ''Virtue Falls'', ''The Punch Club'' and ''Awful Manors''. In 1994, his work ''Tinka's New Dress'' was his international breakthrough, winning two Dora Awards, four Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards and a special citation from the Obie Awards. Performed internationally, ''Tinka's New Dress'' was the first part of a trilogy which continued with ''Street of Blood'' in 1999 and ''Happy'' in 2000. He also won a Chalmers Award in 1996 for ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
