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Gregory Prest
Gregory Prest is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director. He is most noted for his role as Simon in the comedy television series ''Pillow Talk'', for which he and his castmates received an ensemble nomination for Best Performance in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, and as a Dora Mavor Moore Award winner for Best Direction in a Musical in 2019 for Soulpepper's musical ''Rose''. In 2012, he collaborated with Ins Choi, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie and Mike Ross on a theatrical adaptation of Dennis Lee's children's poetry book '' Alligator Pie'', for which they received ensemble Dora nominations for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Direction in the Theatre for Young Audiences division in 2013. He has also been a two-time Dora nominee as an actor, receiving nods for Best Leading Actor, General Theatre in 2014 for ''Of Human Bondage'' at Soulpepper, and Best Actor in a Featured Performance in 2022 for the Mirvish Prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punk Rock (play)
''Punk Rock'' is a play by the British playwright Simon Stephens which premiered at the Royal Exchange in 2009 and transferred to the Lyric Hammersmith directed by Sarah Frankcom. The play concerns a group of private school sixth formers during their A Level mocks exams. Plot In the library of a grammar school, eight sixth-formers are preparing for their mock-A Levels and nearing the end of their school lives. There are various sub-plots detailing the various love lines or triangles that emerge through the play. Characters Other productions * Haptic Theatre Company performed the play in Dylan Thomas' Boathouse on 5 and 6 April 2013, directed by Elinor Richards. Bennet Francis was played by Oliver Selby and Chadwick Meade by Ollie Goulstone. * The Australian premiere was on 27 July 2012 performed by pantsguys Productions in association with the Australian Theatre for Young People * From 3 to 18 August 2012 the play was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe by the ''No Prophet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Canadian Male Writers
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21st-century Canadian Male Actors
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CBC Arts
CBC Arts () is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that creates and curates written articles, short documentaries, non-fiction series and interactive projects that represent the excellence of Canada's diverse artistic communities. Some of the series and projects CBC Arts has produced include ''21 Black Futures'', ''Art 101'', ''Art Hurts'', ''Big Things Small Towns'', '' Canada's a Drag'', ''The Collective'', '' Crash Gallery'', '' Exhibitionists'', '' The Filmmakers'', ''Interrupt This Program'', ''The Move'', '' Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''. CBC Arts has received considerable acclaim, winning multiple Canadian Screen Awards including for best talk show ('' The Filmmakers''), non-fiction webseries ('' Canada's a Drag'') and interactive production ('' Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''). Staff members Amanda Parris and Peter Knegt both write Digital Publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Knegt
Peter Knegt is a Canadian writer, producer, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of six Canadian Screen Awards and his CBC Arts column Queeries received the 2019 Digital Publishing Award for best digital column in Canada. Knegt began his career as a film journalist, working at IndieWire from 2006 to 2015, with other writing appearing in ''Variety'', ''Salon'', and ''Film Quarterly''. His essay "My Gay Art-Porn Debut", on his experience acting in Travis Mathews’s '' I Want Your Love'' (2012), first appeared on ''Salon'' and was later anthologized in ''Best Gay Stories 2013''. In 2013, he was the recipient of a Queer/Art/Mentorship fellowship and named among "11 Amazing Young Queer Artists You Should Know" by ''The Advocate''. In July 2011, Knegt founded a four-day film festival in Picton, Ontario. It was inspired by Knegt's experience attending Mark Cousins and Tilda Swinton's festival "A Pilgrimage," which he documented in detail in the essay "Once Upon a Time in the Scottish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Crawford (playwright)
Mark Crawford is a Canadian theatre actor and playwright."Crawford, Mark" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', March 27, 2019. He is best known for his plays, ''The Birds and the Bees'' (2016) and ''The New Canadian Curling Club'' (2018), which have been widely produced across Canada. Personal life Crawford is from Glencoe, , where he grew up on a farm. He graduated from the joint theatre and drama studies program offered by |
Soulpepper Theatre
Soulpepper is a theatre company based in Toronto, Ontario.Keith Garebian"Soulpepper Theatre" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', November 4, 2010. History Soulpepper was founded in 1998 by twelve Toronto artists aiming to produce lesser-known theatrical classics. It often presents Canadian interpretations of works by noted playwrights such as Harold Pinter, Thornton Wilder, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Anton Chekhov. Soulpepper's founding members are Martha Burns, Susan Coyne, Ted Dykstra, Michael Hanrahan, Stuart Hughes, Diana Leblanc, Diego Matamoros, Nancy Palk, Albert Schultz, Robyn Stevan, William Webster, and Joseph Ziegler. In 2005, the Soulpepper Theatre Company moved into its permanent building, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. The joint project with the George Brown College theatre school was designed by local firm KPMB Architects and is located in Toronto's historic Distillery District. In January 2018, founding artistic director Albert Schultz was pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marilyn Denis Show
''The Marilyn Denis Show'' is a Canadian daytime television talk show which debuted on January 10, 2011, on CTV and CTV 2 (formerly A-Channel). Hosted by Marilyn Denis, the show airs weekdays at 10 a.m. on CTV and 11 a.m. ET on CTV 2 (timeslots vary in other time zones). The show has a lifestyle-oriented format similar to Denis's previous Citytv talk show '' CityLine'', but also regularly features celebrity entertainment guests, which are not commonplace on the Citytv program. Denis had left ''CityLine'' in 2008 following the acquisition of all the assets of CHUM Limited by CTVglobemedia (Denis was primarily employed as morning co-host on CHUM-FM, which was retained by CTV, whilst her secondary employer Citytv was acquired by Rogers due to CRTC ownership regulations). The current program is produced in the same Toronto building (at 299 Queen Street West) in which ''CityLine'' was based during Denis's tenure, in the same studio as ''CityLine'' which was renovated specifically f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Santalucia
Paolo Santalucia is a Canadian actor and playwright. He is most noted for his 2022 play ''Prodigal'', which was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Original Play (General Theatre) in 2023, and his role as J.P. in the comedy television series ''Pillow Talk'', for which he and his castmates received an ensemble nomination for Best Performance in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. He is in a relationship with actor Gregory Prest, who was one of his costars in ''Pillow Talk''. The couple first became known for their performances in Soulpepper Theatre's 2018 production of Mark Crawford's ''Bed and Breakfast'', in which Santalucia and Prest played all 22 of the play's characters themselves.Peter Knegt"This new play queering small towns offers something we all need a little more of: optimism" CBC Arts CBC Arts () is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that creates and curates written articles, short documenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heidi Chronicles
''The Heidi Chronicles'' is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Production history A workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre was held in April 1988, directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, starring Lizbeth MacKay, Caroline Aaron, and Gretchen Corbett. The play premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on November 18, 1988 and closed on February 19, 1989 after 99 performances. It then transferred to Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre, opening on March 9, 1989 and closing on September 1, 1990, after 622 performances. Both productions were directed by Sullivan. The set design was by Thomas Lynch, costume design by Jennifer von Mayrhauser and lighting design by Pat Collins. The cast starred Joan Allen as Heidi, Boyd Gaines as Peter, and Peter Friedman as Scoop. Sarah Jessica Parker was featured in three small roles off-Broadway; those roles were played by Cynthia Nixon for the Broadway run. Replacement actors on Broadway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
