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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 * Kanika Ambrose * Janet Amos * Debra Anderson * Hugh Abercrombie Anderson * John Murray Anderson * Ben Antao * Trey Anthony * Salvatore Antonio * Leslie Arden * Anthony Armstrong (writer), Anthony Armstrong * Daniel Arnold (actor), Daniel Arnold * Lawrence Aronovitch * Nina Arsenault * Damien Atkins * Napoléon Aubin * Suzanne Aubry * Barry Avrich * Makram Ayache * Caroline Azar B * Bilal Baig * Catherine Banks * Keith Barker (writer), Keith Barker * Jean Basile * Mary Elizabeth Bayer * Tara Beagan * Christine Beaulieu * Victor-Lévy Beaulieu * Charles William Bell * Martin Bellemare * John Bemrose * Carolyn Bennett (comedian), Carolyn Bennett * Janette Bertrand * Lillian Beynon Thomas * Yvan Bienvenue * Geneviève Billette * Nicolas Billon * Marthe Blackburn * Mark Blagrave * William Rufus Blake * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Reading (process), reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from Poet, poets. The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks. William Shakespeare is amongst the most famous playwrights in literature, both in England and across the world. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English , from Old English ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word ''wikt:wwright'' is an archaic English term for a Artisan, craftsperson or builder (as in a wheelwright or Wagon, cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form — a play. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trey Anthony
Trey Anthony (born February 18, 1974) 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 Women's Comedy Festival. She founded Trey Anthony Studios, a television and theatre production company dedicated to producing new works of theatre. Personal life Born in London, England to Jamaican parents, Anthony arrived in Canada at 12 years old with her mother. They lived in the working class district of Rexdale in Toronto before moving to suburban Brampton. Anthony's mother had left for Canada ahead of her, leaving her from the ages of 6 to 12 to be raised by her grandmother. Anthony's grandmother had in turn left her mother in Jamaica when leaving for the UK. Anthony's grandmother had been part of the Domestic Scheme Act, allowing her to go to a first world country if she proved she had no family ties. She has a bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilal Baig
Bilal Baig is a Canadian writer and actor. They are best known for their play ''Acha Bacha'' and CBC series '' Sort Of'' (2021–2023)."Entertainment news: New CBC comedy will star genderqueer playwright Bilal Baig as a gender-fluid millennial" '''', 15 October 2020. Early life Baig was raised in , |
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 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makram Ayache
Makram Ayache is a Canadian playwright and actor, whose play ''The Green Line'' was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2024 Governor General's Awards. Born in Lebanon and raised in rural Alberta, he is a graduate of the University of Alberta, and currently divides his time between Edmonton and Toronto."Makram Ayache" Asian Heritage in Canada. His first play, ''Harun'', was staged at the Sage Theatre's Ignite! festival in in 2017. It was subseque ... [...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 c ... [...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 to her parents, Claude Aubry and Paule Saint-Onge, who 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 fiction series aired on Télévision Quatre Saisons (TQS). As a critic and columnist, Suzanne Aubry has contributed to ''Le Devoir'' and the ''Cahiers de théâtre Jeu''. She has tau ... [...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 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Atkins
Damien Atkins is a Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ... actor and playwright."Damien Atkins stands out" '' NOW'', November 14, 2013. Early life and education Born in Australia and raised in St. Albert, Alberta, Atkins graduated from the musical theatre program at Grant MacEwan University, Grant MacEwan College[...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 was fully mid- transition around 1998. By 2007, she had undergone over $150,000 in surgery during her transition, financed through work in the sex industry as a webcam model, a stripper, and a self-described "hooker (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 appeared on the television series '' Train 48'' and '' KinK'', as well as the Showtime movie '' Soldier's Girl''. She had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Aronovitch
Lawrence Aronovitch 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 produced his ten-minute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Arnold (actor)
Daniel Arnold (aka Daniel Smith Arnold) is a Canadian actor and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is most noted as cowriter with Darrell Dennis and Medina Hahn of ''Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience'', a stage play which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2022 Governor General's Awards."The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for drama" CBC Books, October 12, 2022. Early life Born in |
