Sean Reycraft is a

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screenwriter, television producer and playwright."Reycraft's craft"
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'', January 22, 2004. He is most noted for his theatrical play ''Pop Song'', which won the

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in the Youth Theatre division in 2001,"Chalmers winners for the last time ; Rich theatre awards will be replaced with grants system". ''

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'', May 15, 2001. and as the screenwriter of

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's 2007 film ''

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''. The son of former

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MPP

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,"Prime Time: Citizen writer Tony Atherton follows a group of students taking a crash course on writing for TV". ''

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'', May 27, 1999. he was born and raised in Glencoe. He was an actor in the early 1990s before premiering his first play, ''Einstein Dreams'' at

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in 1996. His later plays included ''Reconstruction'', ''The End of Dancing'', ''Roundabout'', ''Strange Things Happen'',"Salons & Soirees". ''

'', April 10, 2003. and ''One Good Marriage''. He studied film and television writing at the

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, and has since been a writer and producer on television series such as ''

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'', '' The Eleventh Hour'', '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' 90210'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Switched at Birth'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. He is out as

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