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Diane Flacks
Diane
Flacks is a writer/performer.
She recently completed her first book: Bear With Me... What They
Don’t Tell You about Pregnancy and New Motherhood, published by
McClelland and Stewart; and available nationwide. In the fall of 2006,
she adapted it for a live solo performance, which toured to London’s
Grand Theatre. It has also been invited to Montreal’s Just For Laugh’s
Festival.
In April/May 2006, her play,
Care, written and performed with Richard Greenblatt, ran at the
Tarragon Theatre. Diane is writing a new screenplay, “The Progressive
Dinner,” with Director Laurie Lynd, and a new play, The
Five Stages, with Bev Cooper for Nightwood Theatre. She is currently
developing a new comedy television series called Here It Is,
with the Heroic Film Company.
She has created and toured
three hit solo shows: Myth Me, (which toured nationally and to
HBO studios in Los Angeles), By A Thread produced at the Tarragon
(which twice toured to La Mama Theatre in New York City, was adapted
for CBC television, and was nominated for a Dora Award), and Random
Acts, produced by Nightwood Theatre, directed by Alisa Palmer.
Random Acts was published in an anthology by Playwrights Canada
Press in 2006.
Written and performed with
Richard Greenblatt was the critically acclaimed play Sibs, produced
twice by the Tarragon to sell-out crowds. It was nominated for the Chalmers
Playwrighting award, and published in spring 2002 by Playwright’s
Canada Press. Diane and Richard adapted Sibs for a CBC television
movie that first aired in the fall of 2003.
As an actor she has appeared
in films and Canadian episodic TV series, and in numerous roles in Canadian
theatres including The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine for Theatre
Columbus, The Theory of Relatives (which she co-created) at the
Tarragon, and The Serpent Woman for Theatre Smith Gilmour.
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