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List Of Canadian Playwrights
Playwrights from Canada include: A * Marianne Ackerman * Kawa Ada * Evan Adams * Carmen Aguirre * André Alexis * Hrant Alianak * Martha Allan * Anne-Marie Alonzo * Karim Alrawi * Janet Amos * Debra Anderson * Hugh Abercrombie Anderson * John Murray Anderson * Ben Antao * Trey Anthony * Salvatore Antonio * Leslie Arden * Anthony Armstrong * Daniel Arnold * Lawrence Aronovitch * Nina Arsenault * Damien Atkins * Napoléon Aubin * Suzanne Aubry * Barry Avrich * Caroline Azar B * Bilal Baig * Catherine Banks * Keith Barker * Jean Basile * Mary Elizabeth Bayer * Christine Beaulieu * Victor-Lévy Beaulieu * Charles William Bell * Martin Bellemare * John Bemrose * Carolyn Bennett * Janette Bertrand * Lillian Beynon Thomas * Yvan Bienvenue * Geneviève Billette * Nicolas Billon * Marthe Blackburn * Mark Blagrave * William Rufus Blake * Seymour Blicker * Laurie Block * Peter Blue Cloud * Columpa Bobb * Adam Bock * Carol Bolt * Yolanda Bonnell * Walter Borden * Gary Bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Antonio
Salvatore Antonio is a Canadian actor and playwright. Early life He was born Salvatore Antonio Alessandro Migliore in Toronto, Ontario. He attended an enriched Arts programme at Unionville High School, and upon graduating he was one of 10 students accepted into the National Theatre School of Canada, where he became an instructor several years after graduating, graduating in 1998. Actor Antonio is known for playing the lead character, Sacha Martinelli, in the television series ''Paradise Falls'' for Showcase and here!. On stage, he originated the title-role in ‘Botticelli In the Fire’ written by Governor General's Award winner Jordan Tannahill. He also played the title character in ''Léo'' by Rosa Labordé at the Tarragon Theatre during the winter of 2006. He reprised the role in 2007, and toured Canada with the production in winter 2008. He played one of the lead roles in the psychological thriller '' Sam's Lake''. Other recent films include ''Cursing Hanley'', ''The Gos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Barker (writer)
Keith Barker is a Canadian playwright and theatre director."Talking Stick Festival's The Hours That Remain remembers the forgotten" '''', February 9, 2014. The current artistic director of the theatre company, he is most noted for his plays ''The Hours That Remain'', an exploration of |
Catherine Banks
Catherine Banks is a Canadian playwright. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, in 2008 for ''Bone Cage'' and in 2012 for ''It Is Solved By Walking''. She resides in Sambro, Nova Scotia, a rural community within the Halifax Regional Municipality. Her other plays have included ''Three Storey, Ocean View'', ''Bitter Rose'' and ''Miss'n Me''. Her latest project involves adapting Ernest Buckler's novel ''The Mountain and the Valley'' for the stage. Banks has cited Michel Tremblay and María Irene Fornés as being among her literary inspirations. Her play ''Bone Cage'' was adapted by actor and director Taylor Olson for the 2020 theatrical film '' Bone Cage''.Morgan Mullin"Trapped inside a Bone Cage" '' The Coast'', September 22, 2020. References External linksCatherine Banksat the Playwrights Guild of Canada Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) is a Canadian charity that works to advance the creative rights and interests of professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilal Baig
Bilal Baig is a Canadian writer and actor, most noted for their play ''Acha Bacha'' and television series ''Sort Of''."Entertainment news: New CBC comedy will star genderqueer playwright Bilal Baig as a gender-fluid millennial" '''', October 15, 2020. ''Acha Bacha'', which centers on a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Azar
Caroline Azar is a director and playwright. She was the lead singer, keyboardist and co-lyricist/composer of the band Fifth Column. Career The all-women punk band Fifth Column began in the mid-1980s in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band self-released two albums, '' To Sir With Hate'' and ''All-Time Queen Of The World''. Azar has acted in a number of stage productions, including ''The Molly Murders'' by Anthony Furey, for which she was selected "Outstanding Performer" by '' Now Magazine''. She worked as directorial assistant for the Judith Thompson productions of ''Perfect Pie'', ''Habitat'', ''Capture Me'' and ''Body and Soul'', story editor, and dramaturg for other writers, Azar has also written several plays, including ''Satan's Mistress'', ''The Surreal Detective vs John Nothing'' and ''Man-O-Rexic''. ''Man-O-Rexic'' featured songs written by Azar and recorded with Fifth Column alumni G. B. Jones and Beverly Breckenridge along with Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras. In 2012, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Avrich
Barry Michael Avrich ( ; born May 9, 1963) is a Canadian film director, film producer, author, marketing executive, and arts philanthropist. Avrich's film career has included critically acclaimed films about the entertainment business including ''The Last Mogul'' about film producer Lew Wasserman (2005), ''Glitter Palace'' about the Motion Picture Country Home (2005), and ''Guilty Pleasure'' about the '' Vanity Fair'' columnist and author Dominick Dunne (2004). In addition, Avrich produced the Gemini-nominated television special ''Caesar and Cleopatra'' (2009) with Christopher Plummer. Avrich also produced Canada's Sports Hall of Fame Awards (2015) as well as the Canadian Screen Awards (2015-2017) and The Scotiabank Giller Prize (2015-Current). Besides films, Avrich has authored three books and one play as well as supporting many leading cultural institutions including The Toronto International Film Festival and the Stratford Festival of Canada. Avrich was responsible for creating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Aubry
__NOTOC__ Suzanne Aubry (born 1956) is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter and playwright from Montreal. Suzanne Aubry was born in Ottawa. Both parents, Claude Aubry and Paule Saint-Onge, were novelists. She graduated in playwriting from the National Theatre School of Canada and in 1987, her play ''La nuit des p'tits couteaux'' was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Suzanne Aubry wrote the screenplay for the 1994 feature film ''Meurtre en musique'', directed by Gabriel Pelletier. With Louise Pelletier, she wrote the screenplays for three prime time television series: ''Sauve qui peut!'' ( TVA), ''À nous deux!'' and ''Mon meilleur ennemi '' (Radio-Canada). Prior to this, she contributed episodes of ''Manon'' which was aired on Radio-Canada, and '' La Maison Deschênes'', the first soap opera for Télévision Quatre Saisons (TQS). As a critic and columnist, Suzanne Aubry has contributed to ''Le Devoir'' and the ''Cahiers de théâtre Jeu''. She has taught playwriting at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoléon Aubin
Napoléon Aubin (9 November 1812 – 12 June 1890), christened Aimé-Nicolas, was born from a Swiss family in Chêne-Bougeries, a district of Geneva, at the time a territory of France. He was a journalist, writer, publisher, scientist, musician and lithographer. Biography Little is known about the youth of Napoléon Aubin. He left school when he was about 16. The son of Pierre Louis Charles Aubin and Elisabeth Escuyer, he emigrated to New York in 1829 where he was to be a pastor in Biddeford, Maine. In 1835 he moved to Montreal, and then again to Quebec City, later that year.Piazza, François. ''Le Mémorial de Québec: Le Québec de 1839 à 1889''. société des Éditions du mémorial, 1980, p.22 Aubin served as editor for numerous newspapers and magazines, including ''Le Canadien'', ''L'Ami du peuple'', ''de l'ordre et des lois'' (Law and Order), and ''La Tribune''. In 1865, he launched the paper ''Les veillées du père Bonsens''. A satirist, he wrote works in support of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Atkins
Damien Atkins is a Canadian actor and playwright."Damien Atkins stands out" '''', November 14, 2013. Early life and education Born in and raised in St. Albert, Alberta, Atkins graduated from the musical theatre program at[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Arsenault
Nina Arsenault (born January 20, 1974) is a Canadian performance artist, freelance writer, and former sex worker who works in theatre, dance, video, photography and visual art. Early life Arsenault grew up in a trailer park in Beamsville, Ontario. She has two master's degrees. At one point prior to her transition, Arsenault was an instructor at York University, where she taught acting. She has said she realized that she was a trans woman in August 1996 and her transition was in full force around 1998. By 2007 she had undergone over $150,000 in surgery during her transition, financed through work in the sex trade as a web cam girl, a stripper and a self-described "hooker erforming oral sex only. Career Arsenault wrote a regular column on transgender issues for 36 issues of ''fab'', a biweekly Toronto-based LGBT magazine. Her last column was in early 2007. She has appeared on the television series ''Train 48'' and ''KinK'', as well as the Showtime movie ''Soldier's Girl''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Aronovitch
Lawrence Aronovitch (born May 25, 1974) is a Canadian playwright and actor based in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the playwright in residence at the Great Canadian Theatre Company. Aronovitch is a graduate of Harvard University, where he studied the history of science. As an undergraduate, he appeared on stage in a number of student productions. His first play, ''Galatea'', was produced by Toto Too Theatre in 2009. The play, which is a modern gay version of the classic Pygmalion story, has also been produced in Vancouver, British Columbia and has toured in Northern Ireland. 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. It was produced by Evolution Theatre in 2011. His ten-minute play ''Late'' was featured in New Theatre of Ottawa's Extremely Short Play Festival in May 2012. New Theatre of Ottawa also prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
