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John Mighton
For the past seven years, John
Mighton has coordinated JUMP, a successful school program designed to
tutor children who are having difficulties in math. John has written
an inspirational book based on his experiences with JUMP called The
Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child, published
by House of Anansi Press. He recently released a follow-up book to
The Myth of Ability called The End of Ignorance. Mighton
completed a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Toronto and has
lectured in Philosophy at McMaster University. He held an NSERC postdoctoral
fellowship for research in graph theory and knot theory at The Fields
Institute and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of
Toronto.
Mighton’s plays, Scientific
Americans, Possible Worlds, A Short History of Night,
Body and Soul, The Little Years and Half Life have
been performed across Canada, as well as in Europe, Japan and the United
States, and have won several national awards including a Governor General’s
Literary Award for Drama for Possible Worlds and A Short History
of Night in 1992, and for Half Life in 2005. John is also
a recipient of the 2005 Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize. Mighton’s
play Possible Worlds was made into a full-length feature film
directed by renowned director/playwright Robert Lepage. He is currently
adapting Brian Greene’s book The Elegant Universe for The Lincoln
Centre with Robert Lepage.
“I do like the collaborative
side to filmmaking or playwriting. It can be painful, but when it works,
a good film or play is a collective work of intelligence. Even once
the text is written, like Shakespeare, it takes on depth over the years
because it gains layers of meanings from having really good people work
on it, to the point where it’s hard to tell whose text it is anymore.
It becomes a collective work of art.”
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