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Michael Melski
Michael Melski is an award-winning
writer and filmmaker from Cape Breton. His many stage plays, including
Joyride, Heartspent and Black Silence have been produced
across Canada. He was playwright-in-residence at the Shaw Festival and
published in Blood on Steel: Two Plays. His Hockey Mom, Hockey
Dad has toured nationally to packed audiences across Canada, and
was published by Breton Books. His play Miles From Home was a
smash hit in the summer of 2001, breaking box office records at Ship’s
Company Theatre. In the 2002 Nova Scotia Theatre Awards, he was nominated
twice in the Best Play category. His other plays include A
Sense of Direction and Hello from Sirius. Michael has been
called “A Great Writer” (David Adams Richards), “An Important
New Voice in Canadian Fiction” (Atlantic Books Today) and one
of “100 Canadians To Watch” by Macleans. He divides his time
between Halifax and Toronto.
Forthcoming from Playwrights
Canada Press is Michael’s latest play, The Fly Fisher’s Companion,
commissioned by Ship’s Company Theatre.
“I definitely feel part
of a maritime storytelling tradition, even when that locale isn’t
a key element of my stories. All experience and observation, even minor
and mundane, have an impact – for me, writing is an attempt to understand
life. Sometimes it’s even entertaining.”
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