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Daniel MacIvor
Daniel MacIvor has been creating
new theatre since 1986 and was for twenty years artistic director of
da da kamera, an international touring company based in Toronto which
he ran with Sherrie Johnson. His published work includes See Bob
Run, Never Swim Alone, You Are Here, In On It,
How It Works, I Still Love You: Five Plays—which won the
Governor General’s
Literary Award for Drama in 2006—and His Greatness,
which won Best New Play at the 2008 Jessie Awards in Vancouver. With
Daniel Brooks he created the solo shows House, Monster,
Cul-de-sac and This Is What Happens Next. He received an
Obie and a GLAAD Award for his play In On It
which was presented in New York at PS122 in September of 2001. Also a
filmmaker, he has written and directed the feature films Past Perfect
and Wilby Wonderful,
and co-wrote and starred in Whole New Thing. He was the inaugural
senior playwright-in-residence at the Banff Playwright’s Colony where he was developing his
play Communion as part of a trilogy: Confession, produced
by Mulgrave Road Theatre in Nova Scotia and Redemption, which
he is developing at the National Theatre School. Currently he is writer-in-residence
at the University of Guelph and lives in Toronto.
Daniel is the recipient of
the 2008 Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.
He is represented by Thomas
Pearson at ICM Talent. Check out Daniel’s web log at danielmacivor.com.
“I do trust my head and
I’m just learning to trust my heart. Shows like House, they are largely
from the head. To me, the light is the heart and the head is the darkness,
but without the darkness, you don’t see the light. My darkness is
imposed upon me by my thinking. And feeling is movement, and that’s
light.”
“[T]heatre has the power
to transform lives. The lives of the practitioners transform—because
certainly mine has—and the lives of those audiences who come into
the dark rooms with their minds and their hearts open, who are filled
with questions and find a moment of peace in the presence of something
innately familiar.”
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