Related Research Articles
Daniel MacIvor 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.
The Body Politic was a Canadian monthly magazine, which was published from 1971 to 1987. It was one of Canada's first significant gay publications, and played a prominent role in the development of the LGBT community in Canada.
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company. Based in Toronto, Ontario, and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, Buddies in Bad Times is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical expression".
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee 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 (2011) and its television adaptation (2016–2021).
The Canadian Children's Opera Company is a large choral group based in Toronto. The company consists of five divisions of approximately 240 boys and girls aged 6 to 19. The Principal Chorus has about 50 choristers, and they participate as the children's chorus in productions by the Canadian Opera Company (COC). The current music director is Teri Dunn.
Tony Nardi is an Italian-Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director based in Toronto, who has performed on stage and in film and television.
Waawaate Fobister (Anishinaabe) is a Canadian actor, dancer, playwright, choreographer, instructor, producer and storyteller, best known for their semi-autobiographical one-man play, Agokwe.
Jerusalem (2009) is a play by Jez Butterworth; it opened in the Jerwood Theatre of the Royal Court Theatre in London. The production starred Mark Rylance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron and Mackenzie Crook as Ginger. After receiving rave reviews, its run was extended. In January 2010 it transferred to the Apollo Theatre; it played on Broadway in the summer of 2011.
Keith Cole is a queer Canadian performance artist and political activist. Originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, he is currently based in Toronto, Ontario. An alumnus of York University's Fine Arts program, Cole has worked in film and video, dance and theatre performance, both as himself and in character as drag queen Pepper Highway.
The Company Theatre is a Toronto-based independent theatre company that produces provocative international plays with Canada's best actors.
Jonathan Wilson is a Canadian actor, comedian and playwright, best known for his 1996 play My Own Private Oshawa. The play, a semi-autobiographical comedy about growing up gay in Oshawa, Ontario, was also optioned by Sandra Faire's SFA Productions for production as a film, which won an award at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival in 2002 before being broadcast as a television movie on CTV in 2005.
Anusree Roy is a Canadian award-winning writer of plays, television, film and libretto. She is also an actress.
Ronald Pederson is a Canadian (Métis) actor, comedian and theatre director who has worked extensively throughout Canada and in the United States. He has performed with most of Canada's major theatres including The Stratford Festival, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, The Arts Club, The Vancouver Playhouse, The Young Centre, The Canadian Stage Company, The Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Soulpepper and The SummerWorks Festival. Pederson has also worked extensively in television and may be best known for his Canadian Comedy Award-Nominated work and his three seasons on Fox Television's MADtv.
Tawiah Ben M'Carthy is a Ghanaian-born Canadian actor and playwright. He is best known for his 2012 play Obaaberima, a one-man play about growing up gay in Ghana.
Damien Atkins is a Canadian actor and playwright.
An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, which premiered in 1859. Jacobs-Jenkins reframes Boucicault's play using its original characters and plot, speaking much of Boucicault's dialogue, and critiques its portrayal of race using Brechtian devices. Jacobs-Jenkins considers An Octoroon and his other works Appropriate and Neighbors linked in the exploration of theatre, genre, and how theatre interacts with questions of identity, along with how these questions transform as a part of life. In a 2018 poll by critics of The New York Times, the work was ranked the second-greatest American play of the past 25 years.
Ken Garnhum is a Canadian playwright, performance artist and theatrical designer. He is most noted for his performance piece Beuys, Buoys, Boys, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 1989, and his play Pants on Fire, which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1995.
Harry Rintoul was a Canadian playwright and theatre director. He was best known for his 1990 play Brave Hearts, which was noted as one of the first significant gay-themed plays in Canadian theatre history to be written by a heterosexual writer, and one of the first ever to address gay themes in a rural setting outside of the traditional gay urban meccas of Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
Mark Crawford is a Canadian theatre actor and playwright. He is best known for his 2016 play The Birds and the Bees, one of the most widely-produced new Canadian plays of the 2010s.
Andrew Kushnir is a Canadian playwright and actor. He is most noted as co-creator with Damien Atkins and Paul Dunn of The Gay Heritage Project, a theatrical show dramatizing aspects of LGBT history which was shortlisted for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2014,
References
- 1 2 "Couple go separate ways for sake of production; Paul Dunn and Mark Crawford take singular approach to Belfry show". Victoria Times-Colonist , August 10, 2017.
- ↑ "Gay Heritage Project has a bright future". Toronto Star , November 24, 2013.
- ↑ "TAPA ANNOUNCES 2014 DORA AWARD NOMINEES". The Theatre Reader, June 2, 2014.
- ↑ "Overshadowed by overlong first act". Toronto Sun , October 2, 2008.
- ↑ "This was a quartet I won't soon forget; Four plays that reminded me what can be done on stage". National Post , January 3, 2009.
- ↑ "Outside, onstage". Daily Xtra , November 24, 2014.
- ↑ "From indie to alternative and back again". The Globe and Mail , February 19, 2016.
- ↑ Laura Levin, "On Political Performance Art and Rob Fordian Performatives" in Performance Studies in Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780773549876.