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 ...
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Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
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Marianne Ackerman
Marianne Letitia Ackerman (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, and journalist. ''Mankind and Other Stories of Women'', her fifth work of prose fiction, was published by Guernica Editions in 2016. Her play ''Triplex Nervosa'' premiered a ...
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Kawa Ada
Kawa Ada (born June 12, 1982) is an Afghan-Canadian actor, writer and producer. He distinguished himself as a stage actor on Broadway and in Toronto before pursuing a career as a film and television actor and a writer. He is also a dancer, a ch ...
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Evan Adams
Evan Tlesla Adams (born November 15, 1966) is an Indigenous Canadian actor, playwright, and physician. A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films ...
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Carmen Aguirre
Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-born Canadian actress and writer. She plays a prominent role in ''Endgame''.
Early in her life, she lived and worked as a member of the Chilean Resistance.
Career
Her 2011 book ''Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revo ...
Hrant Alianak
Hrant Alianak (born 1950), also billed as Harant Alianak or Grant Aljanak, is an Armenian-Canadian actor and playwright.
Career
In 1988, he was nominated for the Genie Award "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role" for the 1987 film ...
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Martha Allan
Marguerite Martha Allan (1895 – April 4, 1942) was the founder of the Montreal Repertory Theatre and co-founder of the Dominion Drama Festival. She loathed amateur theatre, but her energies spearheaded the Canadian Little Theatre Movement at a ...
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Anne-Marie Alonzo
Anne-Marie Alonzo, (December 13, 1951 – June 11, 2005) was a Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher.
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, she immigrated to Quebec when she was twelve. In 1966 she was the victim of a car accident wh ...
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Karim Alrawi
Karim Alrawi (Arabic كريم الراوي) is a writer born in Alexandria, Egypt. He has taught at universities in the UK, Egypt, US and Canada. He was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa and taught creative writing at the ...
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Janet Amos
Janet Amos (born 12 September 1944) is a Canadian theatre actress, director, educator and playwright.
The daughter of the actress Beth Amos, Janet has led theatre companies as the artistic director of the Blyth Festival (1979-1984 and 1994-1997) ...
Hugh Abercrombie Anderson
Captain Hugh Abercrombie Anderson MBE (10 February 1890 – 9 November 1965) was a Newfoundland writer.
Born in St. John's, Anderson was the son of politician John Anderson. Following an education at Bishop Feild College and Edinburgh Academy ...
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John Murray Anderson
John Murray Anderson (September 20, 1886 – January 30, 1954) was a Canadian theatre director and producer, songwriter, actor, screenwriter, dancer and lighting designer, who made his career in the United States, primarily in New York City and ...
Trey Anthony
Trey Anthony (born 1983) is a British-born Canadian playwright, actor, and producer, best known for her award-winning play and television series '' Da Kink in My Hair''. As a producer, she worked for the Women's Television Network and the Urban Wo ...
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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 stu ...
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Leslie Arden
Leslie Arden is a Canadian musical theatre composer, lyricist and librettist. She is best known for her work '' The House of Martin Guerre'' (co-book by Anna Theresa Cascio) produced by Theatre Plus (1993), the Goodman Theatre (1996) in Chicago a ...
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 his ...
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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, Ont ...
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, musici ...
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 ...
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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-rele ...
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Bilal Baig
Bilal Baig is a Canadian writer and actor, most noted for their play ''Acha Bacha'' and television series '' Sort 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 com ...
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Keith Barker
Keith Hubert Douglas Barker (born 21 October 1986) is an English first-class cricketer who plays for Hampshire. He is an all-rounder. He previously played professional football, where he was a striker. He came through the academy of Premier ...
Christine Beaulieu
Christine Beaulieu is a Canadian actress and playwright from Quebec.
She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 18 ...
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Victor-Lévy Beaulieu Victor-Lévy Beaulieu (born September 2, 1945 in Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, Quebec) is a French Canadian writer, playwright and editor.
Born in Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, in the area of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu began primary school at ...
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Charles William Bell
Charles William Bell (25 April 1876 – 8 February 1938) was a Canadian playwright, lawyer and politician, born in Hamilton, Ontario. He was Rocco Perri's lawyer.
Bell attended Hamilton Collegiate Institute and Trinity College, University of ...
John Bemrose
John Bemrose is a Canadian arts journalist, novelist, poet and playwright.
His arts reviews have appeared in ''Maclean's'', ''The Globe and Mail'', the ''National Post'' and on CBC Radio.
Bemrose was born and raised in Paris, Ontario, where his f ...
Janette Bertrand
Janette Bertrand (born March 25, 1925) is a Quebec journalist, actress, educator, and writer.
Biography
She was born in Montreal, grew up there, and studied journalism at the Université de Montréal. She began work at the ''Petit Journal'', wor ...
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Lillian Beynon Thomas
Lillian Beynon Thomas (4 September 1876 – 2 September 1961) was a Canadian journalist and feminist.
Life
Lillian Beynon was born on 4 September 1876
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in Streetsville, Ontario.
Her parents were James Barnes and Rebecca Beynon, ...
Mark Blagrave
Mark Blagrave (born 1956) is a Canadian writer of plays, short stories, and novels, and a former university professor and administrator.
Born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Blagrave was raised in Southern Ontario and Bermuda before finishing high schoo ...
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William Rufus Blake
William Rufus Blake (1805 – 22 April 1863) was a Canadian stage actor.
Biography
Blake was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, of Irish background, his parents being William Blake and Charlotte Herring. He was their eldest child, and was baptised on ...
Laurie Block
Laurie Block (1949–2018) was a Canadian poet and educator. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he studied at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.
Bibliography
*''Governing Bodies'' - poetry, 1988
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Peter Blue Cloud
Peter Blue Cloud (Aroniawenrate) (1933 – 2011) was a Mohawk poet, and folklorist.
Early life
He was born June 10, 1933 of the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation on the Caughnawaga Reserve in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada
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Columpa Bobb
Columpa C. Bobb (born 1971) is a Canadian photographer, actress, playwright, poet and teacher of Coastal Salish descent. She has been performing, writing plays, and teaching for 20 years.
Career
Bobb, who is originally from Vancouver, has writ ...
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Adam Bock
Adam Bock (born November 4, 1961) is a Canadian playwright currently living in the United States. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the fall of 1984, Bock studied at the National Theater Institute at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. ...
Yolanda Bonnell
Yolanda Bonnell is a Canadian actress and playwright. She is most noted for her play Bug (Canadian play), ''Bug'', which was a Governor General's Award nominee for Governor General's Award for English-language drama, English-language drama at the ...
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Walter Borden
Walter Marven Borden, (born July 20, 1942) is a Canadian actor, poet and playwright. He is originally from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.Gary Botting
Gary Norman Arthur Botting (born 19 July 1943) is a Canadian legal scholar and criminal defense lawyer as well as a poet, playwright, novelist, and critic of literature and religion, in particular Jehovah's Witnesses. The author of 40 published b ...
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Michel Marc Bouchard
Michel Marc Bouchard, (born February 2, 1958) is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadi ...
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Denise Boucher
Denise Boucher (born December 12, 1935) is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Biography
The daughter of Alexandre Boucher, police chief, and Justine Bélair, she was born in Victoriaville, Quebec. She received a teaching certificate from the Éco ...
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Pan Bouyoucas
Pan Bouyoucas (born 16 August 1946 in Lebanon) is a Greek-Canadian author
An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states:
"''An author is "the person who originated or g ...
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Gail Bowen
Gail Dianne Bowen ( Bartholomew; born September 22, 1942) is a Canadian playwright, writer of mystery novels and educator.
Biography
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bowen was educated at the University of Toronto, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts ...
Diana Braithwaite
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Ken Brand
Ken Brand is a Canadian playwright from Winnipeg, Manitoba.Glenn Sumi, "Gay theatre scores big with its target audience: Canada's homosexual community is large, rich and self-aware -- and playwrights are cashing in on it. Who cares if the critics d ...
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Marie Brassard
Marie Brassard is a Canadian actress,Histoire du théâtre au Canada'. Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto; 1990. p. 158. theatrical writer and director. She is known for her work with playwright and actor Robert LepageNew Yo ...
Baba Brinkman
Dirk Murray Brinkman (born October 22, 1978) is a Canadian rapper and playwright best known for recordings and performances that combine hip hop music with literature, theatre, and science.
Early life and education
Born in the remote communit ...
Leanna Brodie
Leanna Brodie is a Canadian actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television ...
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Eve Brodlique
Eve Brodlique Summers (, Brodlique; pen names, Willice Wharton, Peg Woffington, Evelyn; 1867 – 10 October 1949) was a British-born Canadian/American author and journalist. One of the best-known newspaper women on the Continent, she filled ever ...
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Daniel Brooks
Daniel Brooks (born 23 June 1958) is a Canadian theatre director, actor and playwright. He is well known in the Toronto theatre scene for his innovative productions and script-writing collaborations.
Early life
Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontari ...
Mark Brownell
Mark Brownell is a Toronto-based playwright and co-artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife, Sue Miner.
He is the author of a number of plays, including ''Monsieur D'Eon is a Woman'', which was nominated for a Governor Genera ...
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Walter Bruno
Walter Bruno was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His career as a writer of plays includes three productions, ''Shouting for Joy'' and ''Hand-to-Hand'', and, in collaboration, a translation of Alfred Jarry, Alfred Jarry's ''Ubu the King'', all s ...
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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'' ...
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Aaron Bushkowsky
Aaron Bushkowsky (born 1957 in Winnipeg, Manitoba)Aaron Bushkowsky at the Canadi ...
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Alec Butler
Alec Butler (born Audrey Butler; 1959) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker.
Life and career
Butler was born in 1959, and is two-spirit, non-binary and intersex. Butler uses ''they''/''them'' and ''he''/''him'' pronouns. Assigned female ...
Jason Cadieux
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Morley Callaghan
Edward Morley Callaghan (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.
Biography
Of Canadian/English-immigrant parentage,Clara Thomas, ''Canadian Novelists 192 ...
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George Frederick Cameron
George Frederick Cameron (24 September 1854 – 17 September 1885) was a Canadian poet, lawyer, and journalist, best known for the libretto for the operetta '' Leo, the Royal Cadet''.
Life
He was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of Ja ...
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Silver Donald Cameron
Silver Donald Cameron (June 21, 1937 – June 1, 2020) was a Canadian journalist, author, playwright, and university teacher whose writing focused on social justice, nature, and the environment. His 15 books of non-fiction dealt with everything ...
Normand Chaurette
Normand Chaurette (July 9, 1954 – August 31, 2022) was a Canadian playwright, best known as one of the first prominent writers of LGBT-themed plays in Quebec and Canada.
Life and career
Chaurette's career began in 1976 with ''Rêve d'une nuit ...
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Martha Chaves
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Shirley Cheechoo
Shirley Cheechoo ( cr, ᔒᓕᒋᒍ born 1952) is a Canadian Cree actress, writer, producer, director, and visual artist, best known for her solo-voice or monodrama play ''Path With No Moccasins'', as well as her work with De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig theat ...
Charly Chiarelli
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Born in Racalmuto, Sicily, Chiarelli grew up in the industrial north end of Hamilton, Ontario. He has a Master's degree in Social Work ...
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Herménégilde Chiasson
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Mary-Colin Chisholm Mary-Colin Chisholm is a Canadian actress, playwright, and co-assistant director of the theatre companies LunaSea Theatre and Frankie Productions.
Career
In 2000, Chisholm directed the theatrical piece called ''Frankie'', starring Mary Ellen Maclea ...
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Anne Chislett
Anne Chislett (born December 22, 1942) is a Canadian playwright.
Biography
Born and raised in St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland, Chislett studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of British Columbia. She taught high ...
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Ins Choi
Insub "Ins" Choi () is a Korean Canadian actor and playwright best known for his Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated 2011 play ''Kim's Convenience''
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Olivier Choinière
Olivier Choinière (born July 10, 1973) is a Canadian playwright from Granby, Quebec.Gaëtan Charlebois"Choinière, Olivier" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', April 24, 2020. He is most noted as a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Aw ...
Cheril N. Clarke
Cheril N. Clarke (born September 24, 1980) is a Canadian-born contemporary author and playwright of gay and lesbian romance, drama and comedy.
Life
Though born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Clarke's family moved to Miami, Florida when she was s ...
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George Elliott Clarke
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Marie Clements
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Fabien Cloutier
Fabien Cloutier is a Canadian actor and playwright from Quebec.George Clutesi
George Clutesi, (1905 – 27 February 1988), was a Tseshaht artist, actor and writer, as well as an expert on and ambassador for all Canadian First Nations culture.
Biography
Clutesi was born in Port Alberni, British Columbia in 1905. He was ...
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Lisa Codrington
Lisa Codrington is a Canadian character actress and playwright. She is most noted for her role as Gail on the comedy series ''Letterkenny'' and her theatrical plays ''Cast Iron'', which was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-la ...
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Joy Coghill
Joy Dorothy Coghill-Thorne, CM, (May 13, 1926 – January 20, 2017) was a Canadian actress, director, and writer. Her obituary in ''The Vancouver Sun'' described her as having had "a seven-decade run at the top of the Vancouver theatre world."
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Susan G. Cole
Susan G. Cole (born February 9, 1952) is a Canadian feminist author, activist, editor, speaker and playwright. She has spoken out on a number of issues, including free speech, pornography, race and religion. As a lesbian activist and mother, sh ...
Tom Cone
Thomas Edward Cone (1947 – April 2012) was a Canadian-American playwright and librettist.
Cone's work often presented provocative ideas about morality and art and it stretches existing forms through the integration of music and the visual arts. ...
Beverley Cooper
Beverley Cooper is a Canadian actor, director, dramaturg, and playwright who works in film, radio, television, and theatre.
Acting
Cooper trained in acting and graduated from Studio 58 in Vancouver in 1979.
In 1982, ''Toronto Star'' critic Gina M ...
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Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and actress. Her 2008 play, ''Scratch'', was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2009, was a prizewinner in the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competitio ...
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller '' Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularized the terms ''Generation X'' and ''McJ ...
Susan Coyne
Susan Coyne (born 16 June 1958) is a Canadian writer and actress, best known as one of the co-creators and co-stars of the award-winning ''Slings & Arrows'', a TV series which ran 2003–06 about a Canadian Shakespearean theatre company. She ...
Eliza Lanesford Cushing
Eliza Lanesford Cushing (October 19, 1794 – May 4, 1886) was an American-Canadian dramatist, short story writer, and editor. The daughter of Hannah Webster Foster and sister of Harriet Vaughan Cheney, both novelists, she wrote a number of ...
Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean-Marc Dalpé (born February 21, 1957) is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature.
Dalpé studied theatre at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 1973. In 1979, he obtained gra ...
Daniel Danis
Daniel Danis (born 1962 in Hawkesbury, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright. New, W. H., ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. . p. 275. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-lang ...
Robertson Davies
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TJ Dawe
Ti-Jon David "TJ" Dawe (born August 22, 1974) is a Canadian playwright and director.
Early life
Dawe was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He studied theatre at the University of Victoria, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1997.
Caree ...
Vincent de Tourdonnet
Vincent de Tourdonnet is a Canadian musical theatre writer. He is known for writing large-scale historical musicals, as well as intimate, cabaret-style musicals. He also serves as stage director.
Biography
De Tourdonnet’s epic musical ''Pél ...
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Jeanne-Mance Delisle Jeanne-Mance Delisle (born June 24, 1941; some sources say 1939) is a Quebec writer.
The daughter of Rollande Fiset and Sebastien Delisle, she was born in Barraute, Quebec, Barraute and grew up in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Abitibi r ...
Merrill Denison
Merrill Denison (23 June 1893 — 13 June 1975) was a Canadian playwright.Mel Atkey. Broadway North: The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre'. Dundurn; 30 October 2006. . p. 45–. He created many dramas which were broadcast during the early days ...
Claudia Dey
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Dey's first novel, ''Stunt'', was published by Coach House Books. It was one of The Globe and Mail's "2008 Globe 100" and Quill and Quire's "Books of the Year." It was nom ...
Dick Diespecker
Richard Alan Diespecker (March 1, 1907 — February 11, 1973) was a Canadian novelist and journalist.
Born in Adstock, England, Diespecker was educated at the University of British Columbia. After a brief career in teaching, in 1927 he became a j ...
Emma Donoghue
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Chris Doty
Chris Bourke Doty (September 8, 1966 – February 2, 2006) was a Canadian journalist, historian, award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and playwright, noted for his many contributions to the cultural life of his hometown of London, Ontari ...
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Clive Doucet
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Nathalie Doummar
Nathalie Doummar is a Canadian actress and playwright.
Claire Drainie Taylor
Claire Drainie Taylor, née Wodlinger (September 11, 1917 – November 18, 2009) was a Canadian actor and writer, who wrote and acted in radio and television productions for CBC Radio from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Early life
Born and rais ...
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Don Druick Don Druick (born July 23, 1945) is a Canadian writer and composer.Clifford Ford"Don Druick" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', June 20, 2007. He is most noted as a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, receiving n ...
René-Daniel Dubois
René-Daniel Dubois, OC (born July 20, 1955, in Montreal) is a Québécois playwright and actor.
Biography
Movie career
He is best known for his 1985 play ''Being at Home with Claude'', which was adapted into an award-winning film in 1992 and th ...
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Réjean Ducharme
Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Québécois novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since his first successful book was ...
Louise Dupré
Louise Dupré (born July 9, 1949) is a Quebec poet and novelist.
The daughter of Cécile Paré and Arthur Dupré, she was born in Sherbrooke and was educated at the Université de Sherbrooke and the Université de Montréal, receiving a PhD in li ...
Ted Dykstra
Ted Dykstra is a Canadian playwright and actor.
He was born in Chatham-Kent, Ontario in 1961 and grew up in St. Albert, Alberta.
He is a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre Company.
Writing credits include '' Two Pianos Four Hands'', '' ...
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Chris Earle
Christopher Earle is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director."The disaster's the thing ; Chris Earle finds inspiration in human suffering". ''Toronto Star'', April 19, 2003.
Career
Earle is best known for his 1999 play ''Radio :30'', ...
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Gwaai Edenshaw
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Background
The son of noted Haida artist Guujaaw (Gary Edens ...
Matthew Edison
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Caterina Edwards
Caterina Edwards LoVerso (born 1948) is a Canadian writer and teacher. Edwards was born in Earls Barton, England. Her mother was born in Lussino, Istria, and her father is from a Welsh and English family. Edwards eventually moved to Calgary ...
Kris Elgstrand
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David Fennario
David William Fennario, (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for '' Balconville'' (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A ...
Trevor Ferguson
Trevor Ferguson, also known as John Farrow, (born 11 November 1947) is a Canadian novelist who lived for many years in Hudson, Quebec, and he and his wife Lynne Hill Ferguson now live in Victoria, BC. He is the author of fourteen novels and fou ...
The Stillborn Lover ''The Stillborn Lover'' is a theatrical play by Timothy Findley, first staged in 1993."Theatre Review: The Stillborn Lover". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 29, 1993. Based in part on the true stories of Canadian diplomats E. Herbert Norman and John ...
Thom Fitzgerald
Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald (born July 8, 1968) is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer.
Life
Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years ol ...
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Diane Flacks
Diane Flacks is a Canadian comedic actress, screenwriter and playwright.
Early life and education
Flacks was raised in the Jewish faith. Her early education took place in Jewish parochial schools. Flacks studied drama at Leah Posluns Instit ...
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Waawaate Fobister
Waawaate Fobister (Anishinaabe) is a Canadian actor, dancer, playwright, choreographer, instructor, producer and storyteller, best known for their semi-autobiographical one-man play, ''Agokwe.''
Early life
Fobister grew up on the Grassy Narrow ...
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Cheryl Foggo
Cheryl Dawn Foggo is a Canadian author, documentary film director, screenwriter and playwright.
Biography
Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1956, she is descended from Black Oklahomans who settled in Maidstone, Saskatchewan in 1910. She also had ance ...
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Dennis Foon
Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist.
He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of ...
(''The Short Tree and the Bird That Could Not Sing'')
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Honor Ford-Smith
Honor Maria Ford-Smith (born 1951 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet. The daughter of a brown Jamaican mother and an English father, Ford-Smith is sometimes described as "Jamaica white," signalling a person ...
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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 pr ...
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Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
''Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love'' is a 1989 stage play written by Canadian playwright Brad Fraser. Set in Edmonton, Alberta, the comedy-drama follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" who try ...
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Carole Fréchette
Carole Fréchette (born 1949) is a Canadian playwright. She won the Siminovitch Prize in 2002. To date she has written more than a dozen plays including ''The Four Lives of Marie'', ''The Seven Days of Simon Labrosse'', ''Helen's Necklace'', ''J ...
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Louis-Honoré Fréchette
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, (November 16, 1839 – May 31, 1908), was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Académie française, as w ...
William Fruet
William Fruet (born January 1, 1933) is a Canadian film and television director, playwright and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the drama ''Wedding in White'' (1972), based on a play he had also written. The film won Best Picture ...
Lorena Gale
Lorena Gale (May 9, 1958 – June 21, 2009) was a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s. She also authored two award-winning plays, ''Angélique'' and ''Je me so ...
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Brendan Gall
Brendan Gall (born September 2, 1978) is a Canadian writer, actor and producer living in Los Angeles, California.
Early life and education
Gall graduated from the George Brown Theatre School.
Career
Gall has written and/or produced for the t ...
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Mavis Gallant
Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, , née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.
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Bill Gaston
Bill Gaston (born January 14, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia. Aside from teaching at various univ ...
Gratien Gélinas
Gratien Gélinas, (December 8, 1909 – March 16, 1999) was a Canadian writer, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film.
His major works include ''Tit ...
Melissa James Gibson
Melissa James Gibson is a Canadian-born playwright based in New York.
Life
The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and journalist Valerie Gibson, Melissa James Gibson grew up in North Vancouver. She graduated from Columbia University an ...
Sky Gilbert
Schuyler Lee (Sky) Gilbert Jr. (born December 20, 1952) is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at the University of Toronto
Th ...
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Joanna Glass
Joanna McClelland Glass (born October 7, 1936 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast ...
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Gwethalyn Graham
Gwethalyn Graham (January 18, 1913 – November 25, 1965) was a Canadian writer and activist, whose 1944 novel ''Earth and High Heaven'' was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list."Gwethalyn Graham: ...
Robert Gravel
Robert Gravel (14 September 1944 – 12 August 1996) was an actor, dramatist, theatrical director and teacher.
Career
Gravel was born in Montreal. He was an influential figure in the modern history of theatre in Quebec. In the middle of the 1970s ...
John MacLachlan Gray
John MacLachlan Gray, OC (born John Howard Gray; 26 September 1946) is a Canadian writer-composer-performer for stage, TV, film, radio and print. He is best known for his stage musicals and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC TV's '' The J ...
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-estran ...
David Gurr
David Hugh Courtney Gurr is a Canadian writer and author of literary novels and political thrillers. He was born William Le Breton Harvey Brisbane-Bedwell in 1936 in London, England but his name was changed by adoption in 1941. He was educated at ...
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Paul Gury
Paul Gury was the stage name of Loïc (Louis-Marie) Le Gouriadec (May 11, 1888 - November 13, 1974), a French-Canadian film and theatre actor, director and writer. He was most noted as the director of three significant films in the early Cinema of ...
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Alexandria Haber
Alexandria Haber is a Canadian playwright and actor. Her plays include ''Life Here After'' (winner of the 2009 write-on-Q playwriting competition), ''I Don’t like Mondays'', ''Four Minutes if You Bleed,'' ''Housekeeping & Homewrecking,'' ''Ordina ...
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Emma Haché
Emma Haché is a Canadian writer of Acadian descent.
She was born in Lamèque, New Brunswick on November 25, 1979, and studied theatre at the Université de Moncton. She moved to Montreal and continued her studies there at , at the École de Mime ...
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Brigitte Haentjens
Brigitte Haentjens, is a Canadian theatre director and president of her own company, Sybillines, which she founded in 1997.Jean St-Hilaire"Brigitte Haentjens reçoit le prestigieux prix Siminovitch" ''Le Soleil'', online posting in Cyberpresse'' ...
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Abby Hagyard
Abby Hagyard is a Canadian television actress, voice artist, and comedian, best known for her appearances on Nickelodeon's sketch comedy television series ''You Can't Do That on Television'', and her voice work on animated adaptations of ''The ...
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Medina Hahn
Medina Hahn is a Canadian actress and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is most noted as cowriter with Darrell Dennis and Daniel Arnold of ''Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience'', a stage play which was shortlisted for the Gover ...
Jordan Hall
Jordan Hall is a 1,051-seat concert hall in Boston, Massachusetts, the principal performance space of the New England Conservatory. It is one block from Boston's Symphony Hall. It is the only conservatory building in the United States to be de ...
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Marie-Lynn Hammond Marie-Lynn Hammond (born August 31, 1948) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, broadcaster and playwright. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a Franco-Ontarian mother and an Anglo-Quebecer father, she is fluently bilingual and writes and perform ...
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Don Hannah
Don Hannah (born in Shediac, New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play, ''The Wedding Script''.
He has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian S ...
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Herschel Hardin Herschel Hardin (born 1936) is a British Columbia-based writer, playwright, commentator and political activist and consultant best known for having contested the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Canada in 1995.
Life and career
Hardin grew ...
Don Harron
Donald Hugh Harron, (September 19, 1924 – January 17, 2015) was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer. Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast of the long-running co ...
Elliott Hayes
Elliott Hayes (June 22, 1956 – February 28, 1994) was an aspiring Canadian playwright when he was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver.
Elliott Hayes was born in Stratford, Ontario to a theatrical family. He was the grandson of class ...
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Michael Healey
Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor. He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985. His acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman (''The League of Nathans'', ''Reading Hebron'' and ''Thr ...
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Charles Heavysege
Charles Heavysege (May 2, 1816 – July 14, 1876) was a Canadian poet and dramatist. He was one of the earliest poets to publish in Canada. He is known for his critically acclaimed play ''Saul''.Marie-Francine Hébert
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Terence Heffernan
Terence Heffernan (October 10, 1941 – January 13, 1998) was a Canadian screenwriter and playwright."Lives Lived: Terence Heffernan". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 18, 1998. He was most noted for writing the film '' Heartaches'', for which he w ...
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David Hein
David Hein is a Canadian librettist, composer-lyricist, musician, and actor best known for co-writing the Broadway musical ''Come from Away'' with his writing partner and wife, Irene Sankoff.
Hein was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and was educ ...
Tom Hendry
Tom Hendry (1929 – 2 December 2012) was the co-founder of the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1958 and, in 2008, the MTC Warehouse Theatre was officially dedicated to Hendry.
Hendry was born in Manitoba. He attended the University of Manitoba in ...
Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is best known for his plays ''The Rez Sisters'' and ''Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing'', both of which won the Dora Mavor Moore ...
John Stephen Hill
John Stephen Hill (born 16 January 1953), who worked as Stephen Hill, is a Canadian actor and playwright. He returned to the theatre after three decades, as a playwright under the name, Steve Hill.
Actor
Born in Montreal, the third of five ...
Karen Hines
Karen Hines is a Canadian actor, writer and director. She is the artistic director and producer of "Keep Frozen: Pochsy Productions." Born in Chicago, raised in Toronto, she now lives in Calgary where she was playwright in Residence at Alberta Th ...
Arthur Holden
Arthur Holden (born August 28, 1959) is a Canadian actor and writer. Known for his roles such as Mr. Ratburn in ''Arthur'', Baba-Miao in ''Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat'', Mayor Mallard in ''The Little Twins'', and Mr. Larkin in later episode ...
Raymond Hull
Raymond Hull (1919–1985) was a Canadian playwright, television screenwriter, and lecturer. He also wrote many non-fiction books, numerous magazine articles, short stories, and poetry. He is best known as the co-author of the book ''The Peter Pri ...
John Ibbitson
John Ibbitson (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist. Since 1999, he has been a political writer and columnist for ''The Globe and Mail''.
Career
Ibbitson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 with a B.A. in English. After university, ...
Anosh Irani
Anosh Irani (born 1974) is an Indo-Canadian novelist and playwright, born and raised in Mumbai.
Education
From 1998, Irani attended the University of British Columbia and received his bachelor's degree in creative writing in 2002.
He has ...
Donald Jack
Donald Lamont Jack (6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003) was an English and Canadian novelist and playwright.
Life
Jack was born in Radcliffe, Bury, England and grew up in Britain, attending the well regarded Bury Grammar School and Marr College an ...
Becky Johnson
Becky Johnson (born February 14, 1978) is a Canadian comedian, writer, actress, improviser, craftsperson and organizer.
Early life
Johnson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 14, 1978, she attended Queen Elisabeth Annex Primary ...
Patricia Joudry
Patricia Joudry (October 18, 1921 – October 28, 2000) was a Canadian playwright and author.
Biography
Patricia was born in Spirit River, Alberta, the daughter of Clifford and Beth Joudry. While in her twenties, she began a career in radio br ...
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Hiro Kanagawa
is a Japanese-Canadian actor and playwright based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has appeared in numerous high-profile films and television series shot in the Vancouver area, including '' Smallville'', '' Caprica'', ''Godzilla'', ''The Man i ...
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Margo Kane
Margo Gwendolyn Kane (born August 21, 1951) is a Cree-Saulteaux performing artist and writer known for her solo-voice or monodrama works '' Moonlodge'' and '' Confessions of an Indian Cowboy'', as well as her work with Full Circle First Nations P ...
Greg Kearney
Greg Kearney is a Canadian writer. He was a humour columnist for '' Xtra!'' from 1999 to 2005, and published his debut short story collection ''Mommy Daddy Baby'' in 2004.
Born in Kenora, Ontario,Jillian Keiley
Jillian Keiley is a director from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, who was the founding artistic director of ''Artistic Fraud'' ''of Newfoundland''. Since August 2012, Keiley has been the artistic direc ...
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Adam Kelly
Adam Kelly Morton (1973-), also known as Adam Kelly, is a Canadian actor, writer, producer and teacher.
Background
Born in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district of Montreal, Kelly grew up in Pierrefonds.
He first began stage acting while attendin ...
Paul Kimball
Paul Andrew Kimball (born January 2, 1967) is a Canadian film and television producer, writer and director, and politician, who resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Kimball's projects include several documentary films about UFOs.
Education
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Deborah Kimmett
Deborah Kimmett is a Canadian writer and comedian.
Biography
Originally from Napanee, Ontario, she was a member of The Second City's Toronto cast in the 1980s, and appeared as a stage actress in productions of Norm Foster's ''Windfall'', Lawren ...
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Gary Klang
Gary Klang (born December 28, 1941, in Port-au-Prince Haiti), is a Haitian-Canadian poet and novelist. Since 2007, he is the president of the prestigious "Conseil des Écrivains francophones d'Amérique" (Committee, Council of America's francophone ...
Greg Kramer
Greg Kramer (11 March 1961 – 8 April 2013)Richard Burnett"Remembering Greg Kramer". ''Xtra!'', 10 April 2013. was a British-Canadian author, actor, director, and magician. Born and raised in Hertfordshire, England, he emigrated to Canada in 19 ...
Marie Laberge
Marie Laberge (born November 29, 1950) is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
Biography
She was born in Quebec City and studied dance with Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Laberge began the study of journalism at Laval University but entered the Conserva ...
Jonathan Lachlan-Stewart
Jonathan Lachlan Stewart is a Canadian actor and playwright.
Stewart was born and educated in Edmonton, Alberta, and began writing plays in elementary school, when he was twelve years old. Some were performed at the Edmonton International Fringe ...
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Robert Lalonde
Robert John LaLonde (1958–2018) was an American economist who specialized in the fields of labor economics and econometrics. He grew up in Syracuse, NY and attended Westhill High School. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Chicago ...
Rina Lasnier
Rina Lasnier, (6 August 1915 – 9 May 1997) was a Québécois poet. Born in St-Grégoire d'Iberville- Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, she attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal. Although she was the author o ...
Walter Learning
Walter John Learning (November 16, 1938 – January 5, 2020) was a Canadian theatre director, actor, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick.
Biography
Walter Learning was born in 1938 in the small village of Quidi Vidi in the Dominion of Newfound ...
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (born August 16, 1972) is a Korean-Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for his roles as Randy Ko in the soap opera ''Train 48'' (2003–2005) and as family patriarch Appa in the play '' Kim's Convenience'' (20 ...
Mark Leiren-Young
Mark Leiren-Young (born 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and performer. He lives in Saanich, British Columbia.
Early life
Mark Leiren-Young was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He spent two years at ...
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Anne Legault
Anne Legault (born July 7, 1958) is a Quebec actor, writer and educator.
She was born in Lachine and studied at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. Legault performed in children's theatre and on television before she began writing in ...
Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director.
Early life
Lepage was raised in Quebec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with a rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair lo ...
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François Létourneau
François Létourneau (born 1974 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec) is a Canadian actor and writer, best known as co-creator and star of the television series '' Les Invincibles'', ''Série noire'' and '' Happily Married (C'est comme ça que je t'aime)''.
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Raymond Lévesque
Raymond Lévesque (October 7, 1928 – February 15, 2021) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet from Quebec. One of the pioneers of the ''chansonnier'' tradition in Quebec, he was best known for writing " Quand les hommes vivront d'amour", on ...
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Georgina Lightning
Georgina Lightning is a First Nations film director, screenwriter, and actress.
Biography
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she is an enrolled member of the Samson Cree Nation. She was raised off-reserve, near the Samson community in Edmonton, Albert ...
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 inter ...
Kevin Loring
Kevin Loring (born November 24, 1974) is a Canadian playwright and actor. As a playwright, he won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding O ...
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Otto Lowy
Otto Lowy (1921 – May 29, 2002) was the host of CBC Radio 2's ''The Transcontinental'' for 22 years until his death. The program was introduced each week as a "musical train ride through Europe".
Lowy was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to an ...
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Kate Lynch
Kate Lynch (born June 29, 1959) is a Canadian film, television and stage actress, drama teacher, theatre director and playwright.
Biography
In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Actress for ''Meatballs''. She was notably adept at improvisation ...
Maggie MacDonald
Maggie MacDonald (born 1979) is a writer, playwright, and musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Early life and education
MacDonald grew up in Cornwall, Ontario, where she became active in the local independent rock music scene. She put on sh ...
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Lee MacDougall
Lee MacDougall is a Canadian actor, writer and theatre director."High Life? Absolutely: Stratford actor Lee MacDougall is enjoying success and honors as a playwright". ''Waterloo Region Record'', November 1, 1997. Originally from Kirkland Lake, On ...
David Macfarlane
David Macfarlane (born 1952 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist, playwright and novelist.
His debut novel, 1999's '' Summer Gone'', was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and was a winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award.
His New ...
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Daniel MacIvor
Daniel MacIvor (born July 23, 1962) is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director, and film director. He is probably best known for his acting roles in independent films and the sitcom '' Twitch City''.
Personal
MacIvor was born in Sydney, No ...
Michael MacLennan
Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' and ''Bomb Girls''.
As a playwright he is a two ...
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Joan MacLeod
Joan MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright.Joan MacLeod Canadian Theatre Encyclo ...
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Andrew Macphail
Sir John Andrew Macphail, (November 24, 1864 – September 23, 1938) was a Canadian physician, author, professor of medicine, and soldier. Macphail was a prolific writer, and an influential intellectual during the early twentieth century.Damie ...
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Michèle Magny
Michèle Magny (born 1944) is a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director from Montreal, Quebec.
Louise Maheux-Forcier
Louise Maheux-Forcier (June 9, 1929 – February 5, 2015) was a Quebec author.
She was born in Montreal and was educated at the École supérieure Sainte-Croix and then went on to study music at the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique d ...
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Antonine Maillet
Antonine Maillet, (; born May 10, 1929) is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada."Antonine Maillet." ''Paroles d'Acadie : Anthologie de la littérature acadienne (1958-2009)'', edited by ...
Kevin Major
Kevin Major (born September 12, 1949) is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays.
Major was born a ...
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Anita Majumdar
Anita Majumdar is a Canadian actress and playwright. She is best known for her role in the CBC television film ''Murder Unveiled'' for which she received the Best Actress award at the 2005 Asian Festival of First Films.
Personal life
The daug ...
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Robert Majzels
Robert Majzels (born May 12, 1950) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.
Life
Majzels was born in Montreal, Quebec. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal, w ...
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Ahdri Zhina Mandiela Ahdri Zhina Mandiela (born May 10, 1953) is a Toronto-based dub poet, theatre producer, and artistic director. She has gained worldwide acclaim for her books, music recordings, film, theatre and dance productions.
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Stanley Mann
Stanley Mann (August 8, 1928 – January 11, 2016) was a Canadian screenwriter. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he began his writing career in 1951 at CBC Radio, and was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the 1965 film '' The Collector'', based on ...
Tanya Marquardt
Tanya Marquardt (born November 1, 1979) is a memoirist, performer, and writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. Their plays and performances have toured throughout the US and Canada, their essays have been pub ...
Maxim Mazumdar
Maxim Mazumdar (27 January 1952 – 28 April 1988) was an Indo-Canadians, Indo-Canadian playwright and Theatre director, director. He is known for his one-man show, ''Oscar Remembered'', which tells the story of the Irish people, Irish ...
Berend McKenzie
Berend McKenzie is a Canadian actor and playwright. As an actor he is most known for playing Lance in the 2004 film, Catwoman. As a playwright Berend is most known for his controversial play, ''Nggrfg'' (Nigger fag, subtitled, ''Would You Say the ...
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Ian McLachlan
Ian Murray McLachlan (born 2 October 1936) is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1998, representing the Liberal Party. He was Minister for Defence in the Howard Government from ...
Maureen Medved
Maureen Medved is a Canadian writer and playwright. She is also an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She has been published in literary journals and magazines and has had her plays produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, ...
Billy Merasty
Billy Merasty (born 1960) is an Aboriginal Canadian actor and writer of Cree descent.
Early life
Merasty was born in Brochet, Manitoba, Canada. He is the ninth of fourteen siblings born to Viola and Pierre Merasty, and a grandson of Joe Highway ...
Claude Meunier
Claude Meunier (born September 4, 1951) is a Canadian actor, dramaturge, comedian and film director.
Meunier was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied law at the Université de Montréal.
Filmography
Author
Television
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Pauline Michel
Pauline Michel (born 1944 in Asbestos, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter.
Michel has a Bachelor of Education from the Université de Sherbrooke as well a teaching certificate from École normale Margu ...
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Marco Micone
Marco Micone (born March 23, 1945) is an Italian-Canadian playwright and journalist. He was born in Montelongo, Italy and emigrated to Montreal in 1958.
Bibliography
Marco Micone grew up in Montreal and since he was thirteen when he arrived he ...
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John Mighton
John Mighton, OC (born October 2, 1957) is a Canadian mathematician, author, and playwright.
Education and career
Mighton was born in Hamilton, Ontario on and lives in Toronto, Ontario with partner Pamela Sinha and daughter Chloe.
In 1998 ...
Fawzia Mirza
Fawzia Mirza is a Canadian-born film and TV writer and director. She is known for her works such as web series '' Kam Kardashian, Brown Girl Problems'' and the film '' Signature Move'' (2017).
Early life
Mirza's parents were born in India and ...
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W. O. Mitchell
William Ormond Mitchell, (March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster. His "best-loved" novel is '' Who Has Seen the Wind'' (1947), which portrays life on the Canadian Prairies from the point of view of a smal ...
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Boonaa Mohammed
Boonaa Mohammed (born April 14, 1987) is a Canadian spoken-word poet and writer of Oromo people, Oromo descent.
Early life
Mohammed is a second generation Ethiopian immigrant of Oromo people, Oromo ancestry. His Parents came to Canada as politic ...
Monique Mojica
Monique Mojica ( Kuna and Rappahannock) is a playwright, director, and actor based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was born in New York City, but came to Canada as founding member of Native Earth Performing Arts.
She has appeared in several ...
Andrew Moodie Andrew Moodie (born November 30, 1966) is a Canadian actor and playwright.Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof"Moodie, Andrew" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', November 16, 2021. He is most noted for his plays ''Riot'', which was a winner of the Floy ...
Fiona Moore
Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works of TV criticism, short fiction, stage and audio plays (being one of the original members of the Magic Bullet Productions writing team a ...
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Mavor Moore
James Mavor Moore (March 8, 1919 – December 18, 2006) was a Canadian writer, producer, actor, public servant, critic, and educator. He notably appeared as Nero Wolfe in the CBC radio production in 1982.
Life and work
Moore was born in Tor ...
Kim Morrissey
Janice Dales ''aka'' Kim Morrissey is a Canadian poet and playwright who lives in London, England. Many of her works examine the role of women in nineteenth century culture, re-imagining the lives of historical figures. She is also part of the Co ...
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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 Mi ...
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Daniel David Moses
Daniel David Moses (February 18, 1952 - July 13, 2020) was a First Nations poet and playwright from Canada.
Moses was born in Ohsweken, Ontario, and raised on a farm on the Six Nations of the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario, Canada.Colin Bo ...
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Arthur Motyer
Arthur Motyer (December 15, 1925 – June 23, 2011) was a Canadian educator, playwright and novelist.
Life and career
Born in Hamilton, Bermuda, the son of building contractor and land developer Ernest Motyer and Edith Brunning, he was educated ...
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Wajdi Mouawad
Wajdi Mouawad, OC, (born 1968) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor, and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as the acclaimed play ''Incendies'' (2003). His works often revolve around family t ...
Rory Mullarkey Rory Mullarkey (born 1987) is a Canadian playwright and librettist.
Early life
Mullarkey was born in Pembroke, Ontario. He was raised in a military family and spent his childhood in Davenport, Greater Manchester, Davenport and Bramhall, both in Gre ...
Dan Needles
Dan Needles is best known as the playwright behind the popular Wingfield Series, which has played across Canada for many years. It was performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Mirvish Productions Toronto and was aired, in part, on the Cana ...
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Louis Negin
Louis Negin (20 October 1929 – 2 December 2022) was a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his roles in the films of Guy Maddin."Enchantment". ''In Toronto'', September 2011.
Career
Born in London, England, and raised in Toronto, Ontari ...
Eric Nicol
Eric Patrick Nicol (December 28, 1919 – February 2, 2011) was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime humour columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia newspaper ''The Province''. He also published over 40 books, both original works a ...
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Francine Noël
Francine Noël (born 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian writer, whose 2005 work ''La Femme de ma vie'' won the 2006 edition of Première Chaîne's '' Le Combat des livres''.
She teaches theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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Yvette Nolan
Yvette Nolan (Algonquian peoples, Algonquin) (1961) is a Canadians, Canadian playwright, director, actor, and educator based out of Saskatchewan, Canada. She was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. She has contributed significantly to the creati ...
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Alden Nowlan
Alden Albert Nowlan (; January 25, 1933 – June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright.
History
Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windsor ...
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Darren O'Donnell
Darren O'Donnell (born 1965) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, performance artist, playwright, director, actor and urban planner.
He is the artistic director of the Mammalian Diving Reflex theatre company, has written many plays including ''A Sui ...
Leo Orenstein
Leo Alan Orenstein (24 July 1919 – 5 February 2009) was a Canadian director, producer and writer who worked primarily in television and theatre. At CBC Television alone, he was director or producer in over 150 works there, many of which wer ...
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Cathy Ostlere
''Lost: A Memoir'' is a non-fiction memoir, written by Canadian writer Cathy Ostlere, first published in May 2008 by Key Porter Books. In the book, the author chronicles her feelings of guilt associated with her brother and his fiancée being dec ...
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Mieko Ouchi
Mieko Ouchi (born 1969) is a Canadian actress, director and playwright."Ouchi, Mieko" ''Canadi ...
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André Paiement
André Paiement (June 28, 1950 – January 23, 1978) was a Canadian playwright and musician. He was one of the most prominent Franco-Ontarian artists, playing a key role in developing many of the cultural institutions of the community.
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Alisa Palmer
Alisa Palmer is a Canadian theatre director and playwright. She was the artistic director of Nightwood Theatre from 1993 to 2001. Palmer is currently the artistic director of the English section of the National Theatre School of Canada.
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Morris Panych
Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor.
Early life
Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the Univers ...
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