Stephen Massicotte (born April 18, 1969 in
Trenton, Ontario
Trenton (2001 population 16,770) is a large unincorporated community in Central Ontario in the municipality of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada. Located on the Bay of Quinte, it is the starting point for the Trent-Severn Waterway, which continues no ...
) is a
Canadian
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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 ...
,
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and
actor
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. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
from
Calgary
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,
Alberta
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.
Personal life
Massicotte is an
atheist
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
.
["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
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The Boy's Own Jedi Handbook''
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The Girls Strike Back''
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The Return of the Jedi Handbook''
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Mary's Wedding
"Mairi's Wedding" (also known as Marie's Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, or gd, Màiri Bhàn "Blond Mary") is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman (1865–1938) for Mary C. MacNiven (1905–1997) on the ...
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The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion''
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The Emperor of Atlantis
' (''The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death'') is a one-act opera by Viktor Ullmann with a libretto by Peter Kien. They collaborated on the work while interned in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt concentration camp, There ...
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The Last Seduction of Casanova''
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Looking After Eden''
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Pervert
Perversion is a form of human behavior which deviates from what is considered to be orthodox or normal. Although the term ''perversion'' can refer to a variety of forms of deviation, it is most often used to describe sexual behaviors that are co ...
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A Farewell to Kings
''A Farewell to Kings'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in September 1977 by Anthem Records. After touring their previous album '' 2112'' (1976), which saw the group reach a new critical and commercial peak, they ...
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The Clockmaker
''The Clockmaker'' (french: L'Horloger de Saint-Paul, also known as ''The Clockmaker of St. Paul'' and ''The Watchmaker of St. Paul'') is a 1974 French crime drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Based on the 1954 novel '' L'Horloger d'Ever ...
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Screenplays
*''
The Dark''
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning''
Opera
*''
Mary's Wedding
"Mairi's Wedding" (also known as Marie's Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, or gd, Màiri Bhàn "Blond Mary") is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman (1865–1938) for Mary C. MacNiven (1905–1997) on the ...
'' (libretto)
See also
*
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
* Joh ...
References
External links
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21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Canadian male screenwriters
University of Calgary alumni
Male actors from Calgary
Writers from Calgary
1969 births
Living people
People from Quinte West
Writers from Ontario
Male actors from Ontario
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian male writers
Canadian atheists
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
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