Dave Carley

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Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright who has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 450 productions across Canada and the United States, and in other countries. [1] They have won, or been nominated for, a number of awards, including the Governor General's Award (Writing with our Feet, finalist), The Chalmers Award, The Dora Award, The Arthur Miller Award (University of Michigan) and the New York International Radio Festival Award. He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig series of books of Walter Brooks. He was an editor of The Kawartha Sun, the founding editor of the Playwrights Guild of Canada magazine, CanPlay, and also editor of Scirocco Drama in the late 1990s.

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Before that, beginning in 1990, Carley was the radio drama script editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and he continues to write for the CBC. He was script editor for the Wendy Lill drama series Backbencher , and wrote three episodes for the second season, which began broadcast in January 2011.

Carley was born in Peterborough, Ontario, where he attended Queen Alexandra Public School and Adam Scott Collegiate and Vocational Institute. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Toronto (University College) and an LL.B. from Queen's University in Kingston. He is an active member in a number of organizations, including Playwrights Guild of Canada and Amnesty International as well as being the chair of the Dance and Opera Divisions for the Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Carley was the winner of the 2012 Maggie Bassett Award, which is given for significant and sustained contribution to theatre in Ontario.

Carley continues to write for the stage and a work about the death penalty, Twelve Hours, was premiered in March 2014 at the Garden Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch called it "90 minutes of gripping theatre". Twelve Hours was published by Scirocco Press in spring 2015. His stage adaptation of A Splinter of the Heart, the novel by Al Purdy, was premiered by the Festival Players of Prince Edward County in August 2016. Carley's latest play, Canadian Rajah, is based on the life of Esca Brooke Daykin, eldest son of Charles Brooke, the second "White Rajah of Sarawak". It was premiered in January 2019 at Campbell House, Toronto.

He is the brother of Gord Carley, author of Surviving Adversity, and lives in Toronto.

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  1. "Dave Carley". pwcenter.org. Playwrights' Center. Retrieved 19 January 2024.