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Robert Fothergill
Born in England in 1941, and
educated at Downing College, Cambridge, Robert Fothergill came to Canada
in 1963 to pursue graduate work at McMaster University and the University
of Toronto.
His PhD dissertation was published
as Private Chronicles: a Study of English Diaries by Oxford University
Press in 1974. After teaching for many years in the English Department
of Atkinson College at York University, he joined the Department of
Theatre in the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1994, serving as Chair for five
years. An early play, Something To Do, won a prize in a one-act
play competition at the U of T in 1965, but for a number of years he
was more involved in film, founding the Canadian Film-makers’ Distribution
Centre in 1967, with Lorne Michaels and David Cronenberg, and making
the controversial TV news simulation, “Countdown Canada,” in 1970.
Peripheral involvement in theatre over the years has included old geezer
roles in Theatre@York productions, as well as three recent visits to
India to direct Canadian plays with students at the Universities of
Baroda and Jaipur. He was reluctantly retired from York in 2006, but
continues to teach there as though nothing had happened. He is married
with two grown sons, and lives in Toronto.
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