Sunil Kuruvilla

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Sunil Kuruvilla is a Canadian playwright from Waterloo, Ontario. [1] He is most noted for his play Rice Boy, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2003 Governor General's Awards. [2]

Educated at Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Windsor and Yale University, [3] he first emerged as a playwright in the early 1990s when he won a Shaw Festival competition with his play Fight of the Century. [3] His plays Bulldogs and Firetrucks (1994) [4] and Ears to Glass, Glass to Ground (1996) [5] were both selected for the prestigious Vancouver New Play Festival.

Rice Boy was first staged by the Yale Repertory Theatre in 2000 while Kuruvilla was a student there, [6] and received a production in Los Angeles by The Actors' Gang in 2001. [7] In 2001, his play Fighting Words was staged by Toronto's Factory Theatre, [8] and his play Minus 1 was staged at the Toronto Fringe Festival. [9] In 2002, his play Snapshot was staged in Louisville, Kentucky. [1]

Rice Boy was produced by Canadian Stage in 2003, [10] and was a Governor General's Award nominee that year following its publication by Playwrights Canada Press.

In 2009, Rice Boy was staged by the Stratford Festival, the festival's first-ever production of a play about the immigrant experience. [11] At that time, Kuruvilla was working in marketing/promotions at Wilfrid Laurier University. [12] Since then, he has become a television writer and college professor.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Kuruvilla, Sunil". encyclopedia.com , 2009.
  2. ↑ "Waterloo playwright makes illustrious literary list". Waterloo Region Record , October 21, 2003.
  3. 1 2 "Young playwright holds a winning hand". The Globe and Mail , November 17, 2001.
  4. ↑ "A winning play". Waterloo Region Record , December 3, 1993.
  5. ↑ "Playwriting competition". The Globe and Mail , December 9, 1995.
  6. ↑ "Riceboy". Variety , October 26, 2000.
  7. ↑ "Rice Boy". Variety , April 30, 2001.
  8. ↑ "Down for the count". Toronto Star , November 18, 2001.
  9. ↑ "A part of Kitchener is going to The Fringe; Local director, actor bring Minus 1 play to Toronto festival". Waterloo Region Record , June 15, 2001.
  10. ↑ "Play sparkles with warmth, humanity". Toronto Star , April 4, 2003.
  11. ↑ "Beautiful memory play shows its local roots". Waterloo Region Record , August 24, 2009.
  12. ↑ "Setting the scene". Laurier Campus , Summer 2009.
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