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Sky Gilbert
Sky Gilbert is a writer, director,
and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director
of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (North America’s largest gay and lesbian
theatre) for 18 years. His hit plays include The Dressing Gown,
Drag Queens on Trial, Play Murder, The Emotionalists
and the Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning The Whore’s Revenge.
His first three novels: Guilty (1998), St. Stephen’s
(1999) and I Am Kasper Klotz (2001) were critically acclaimed.
ECW Press published Sky’s first collection of poetry Digressions
of a Naked Party Girl in 1998, and his theatre memoir Ejaculations
from the Charm Factory in 2000. His second book of collected poems
Temptations for a Juvenile Delinquent was published by ECW in November
2003. He was recently the recipient of the Margo Bindhardt Award (from
the Toronto Arts Foundation), the Silver Ticket Award (from the Toronto
Alliance for the Performing Arts), and the ReLit Award (for his fourth
novel An English Gentleman), and also recently received a PhD
from the University of Toronto. By day, Sky holds a University Research
Chair in Drama and Creative Writing at Guelph University.
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