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Doug Curtis
Doug Curtis is the founder and Artistic
Director of Calgary?s Ghost River Theatre, founded in 1999 to create new Canadian theatre
that is innovative, original and highly theatrical. He was the director
and collaborator on An Eye for An Eye, about the controversial
attempts of Wiebo Ludwig to sabotage the oil industry, which won the
2001 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Musical. Ghost River followed
that show with Picnic, about the day the Ludwig family came to
see An Eye for An Eye. As a producer, Doug recently directed
the collaboratively-created The Alan Parkinson?s Project,
and wrote and produced Confessions of a Paperboy, While My
Mother Lay Dreaming and X-Ray, a collective-creation
musical on 9/11 and Guantanamo Bay.
As a writer and performer, he has created
The Photo Double (One Yellow Rabbit/Ghost River); and collaborated
on The Carrot Warrior Seminar (Halifax, Edmonton, Calgary). He
wrote and performed Mesa at Workshop West, at Sunshine Theatre
and at Magnetic North in 2005. In 2004, Ghost River created programs
such as ?Performance Storytelling? and ?Writing on Your Feet?
to help high school students and emerging performers discover their
voice.
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