Paul Dunn (playwright)

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Paul Dunn is a Canadian playwright and actor. [1] He was a co-creator with Damien Atkins and Andrew Kushnir of The Gay Heritage Project, [2] a theatrical show dramatizing aspects of LGBT history which was shortlisted for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2014, [3]

His other plays have included BOYS, Offensive Shadows, [4] High-Gravel-Blind, [5] Memorial, Outside, [6] Dalton and Company [7] and This Great City. [8]

He is the partner of playwright and actor Mark Crawford. [1]

References

  1. 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.
  2. "Gay Heritage Project has a bright future". Toronto Star , November 24, 2013.
  3. "TAPA ANNOUNCES 2014 DORA AWARD NOMINEES" Archived 2019-07-11 at the Wayback Machine . The Theatre Reader, June 2, 2014.
  4. "Overshadowed by overlong first act". Toronto Sun , October 2, 2008.
  5. "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.
  6. "Outside, onstage". Daily Xtra , November 24, 2014.
  7. "From indie to alternative and back again". The Globe and Mail , February 19, 2016.
  8. Laura Levin, "On Political Performance Art and Rob Fordian Performatives" in Performance Studies in Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. ISBN   9780773549876.