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Crossing Boundaries Speaker Series – Daniel MacIvor
Practical Playwriting
Thursday, November 26, 2015
7 pm, Dr. Foster James Penny Building
PB210, 324 – 5 Street South
FREE Admission, Everyone welcome
Q+A and Reception to follow
Daniel MacIvor is originally from Cape Breton and currently lives in Toronto and Avondale, Nova Scotia. For twenty years he ran da da kamera an international touring company with Sherrie Johnson that brought his work extensively through Canada, the US and to Israel, Norway, Holland, Australia and throughout the UK. He has written numerous award-winning theatre productions including See Bob Run, A Beautiful View, His Greatness, The Best Brothers and his work has been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, German and Japanese. With Daniel Brooks he created the solo shows House, Here Lies Henry, Monster, Cul-de-sac, This Is What Happens Next and most recently Who Killed Spalding Gray?.
MacIvor received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for his collection of plays I Still Love You and in 2008 he was awarded the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre. He is also the recipient of an Obie Award and a GLAAD Award for his play In On It. He was formerly a playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre where his plays How It Works, Communion, Was Spring and Cake and Dirt were produced. He is currently Artistic Director of reWork a Toronto-based touring theatre company he runs with Marcie Januska, and he is writing the libretto for Hadrian, a commission of the Canadian Opera Company for composer Rufus Wainwright to be staged in 2018.
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