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Daniel Brooks
Daniel Brooks has worked as
a director writer, actor, producer, and teacher. One of his earliest
outings was as a director in a theatrical adaptation of the movie “All
About Eve called Evening” (1981). He played the lead in the Ken Gass
production of Hamlet (1981).
Since then, he has become a
mainstay of this country’s theatre, working with a network of Ontario-based
writers, playwrights and directors who virtually define the current
scene (Guillermo Verdecchia, Daniel MacIvor and John Mighton, among
them). He has been co-director of The Augusta Company and da da kamera,
and playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre. He is currently Artistic
Director of Necessary
Angel Theatre Company.
Among his works as a writer
are The Return of Pokey Jones (premiered at Poor Alex Theatre,
1985), The Noam Chomsky Lectures (with Verdecchia, Great Canadian
Theatre Company, 1992), The Lorca Play (with MacIvor, The Theatre
Centre, 1992) and Here Lies Henry (with MacIvor, Buddies in Bad
Times, 1996), and Insomnia (with Verdecchia, The Theatre Centre,
1997).
He has also directed several
works other than his own, notably MacIvor’s House (1992); Mighton’s
Possible Worlds (1998); Faust (Tarragon Theatre 1999); Soulpepper’s
production of Beckett’s Endgame (1999); and Mighton’s
Half Life.
He has also acted in many works,
including his own, notably Pokey Jones, Possible Worlds
(1990), and Insomnia.
He has won several awards,
including the Chalmers (for Noam Chomsky, Here Lies Henry,
House); the Dora Mavor Moore Award three times for directing, the
Edinburgh Fringe First Award (Here Lies Henry); and has been
nominated for the Governor General’s Award (Noam Chomsky).
In October, 2000, he won the Capital Critics Circle Award for his direction
of Possible Worlds. In October, 2001, he received the first Elinore
and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.
He has also worked in film,
notably with Bruce McDonald (whose film “Highway 61” was inspired
by Pokey.)
His highly innovative work
has travelled across Canada and around the world. He is married to Jennifer
Ross. They have two daughters, and live in Toronto.
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