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Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan has written more
than twenty professionally produced plays, many of which have toured
nationally and internationally and he has acted in and directed more
than forty productions. He has won the prestigious Chalmers Award for
outstanding play six times and four of his plays have won the Dora Mavor
Moore Award for best production. His work has received a total of ten
Dora nominations and has been performed around the world.
In 2001, Robert became the
founding Artistic Director of the Children’s Peace
Theatre. In its
first two seasons, the Peace Theatre involved more than one hundred
children and young people in an active program of training, workshops
and performances. In his role as Artistic Director, Robert delivered
two official presentations to the United Nations in New York at the
2002 Special Session on the Children of the World.
Prior to his work with the
Peace Theatre, Robert formed Roseneath Productions in 1986 with David
S. Craig in order to produce and tour his solo show Morgan’s Journey.
The play, which has become the longest running touring play in Canadian
history, has been called a children’s classic and the company, which
incorporated as Roseneath
Theatre in 1993
has established an international reputation for producing plays of the
highest quality for audiences of all ages.
He lives in
Toronto with his wife, Susan Lee Marcus, and their two children Diana
and Clare.
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