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David Belke
David Belke was born in Winnipeg but
was raised and continues to flourish in Edmonton, Alberta. He graduated
from the University of Alberta with a B.Ed and where he also studied
stage design. He fills many different roles in the theatre: performer,
producer, designer, teacher, award-winning playwright. His first full-length
play was produced for the 1990 Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, the
largest theatre festival in North America. Since then he has written
a new play for each subsequent year becoming one the Fringe's mainstays
and one of the city's favourite playwrights. His plays have been performed
across Canada, as well as in the United States, England and Northern
Ireland. David currently works as resident playwright with Edmonton's
Shadow Theatre where he is also an Artistic Associate. Shadow Theatre
usually produces one of David's plays a year, either a premiere or
a remount. Plays include Another Two Hander or Two, Blackpool
& Parrish, The Maltese Bodkin, The Red King's Dream
and William the Bard. A multiple Sterling Award winner, David
also received Samuel French Inc.'s prestigious Canadian Playwrights'
Award for 2000; Samuel French Inc. has since published four of his plays.
In addition, he is a cast member of Edmonton's long-running comedy
institution, Die-Nasty, the live, improvised soap opera. He also serves
as a member of the Varscona Theatre Alliance Board and as the Alberta
representative on the National Council of the Playwrights Guild of Canada
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