Caroline Azar is a director and playwright. She was the lead singer, keyboardist and co-lyricist/composer of the band
Fifth Column
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.
Career
The
all-women punk
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* Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...
band
Fifth Column
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began in the mid-1980s in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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. The band self-released two albums, ''
To Sir With Hate'' and ''All-Time Queen Of The World''.
Azar has acted in a number of stage productions, including ''The Molly Murders'' by Anthony Furey, for which she was selected "Outstanding Performer" by ''
Now Magazine''.
She worked as directorial assistant for the
Judith Thompson productions of ''
Perfect Pie'',
''Habitat'', ''Capture Me'' and ''Body and Soul'', story editor, and dramaturg for other writers, Azar has also written several plays, including ''Satan's Mistress'', ''The Surreal Detective vs John Nothing'' and ''Man-O-Rexic''. ''Man-O-Rexic'' featured songs written by Azar and recorded with Fifth Column alumni G. B. Jones and
Beverly Breckenridge along with
Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras.
In 2012, a documentary film by Kevin Hegge, called ''She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column'' was released featuring interviews with band members Caroline Azar, G.B. Jones, and Beverly Breckenrige, with commentary on the influence of Fifth Column by
Kathleen Hanna
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and Bruce LaBruce.
Azar launched her live workshop production of 'Dink' at The Next Stage Theatre Festival in downtown Toronto at The Factory Theatre in January, 2015, starring the broadway stage star David Keeley. The show received mixed reviews.
Films
*''
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column'' directed by
Kevin Hegge (2012)
*''
She's Real'' directed by
Lucy Thane (1997)
* ''Donna'', video for
Fifth Column
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, directed by Friday Myers (1994)
*''Airplane On The Highway'' video for
Bob Wiseman
Robert Neil Wiseman (born 1962) is a film composer, songwriter, author and music teacher. Wiseman discovered or produced many artists including Ron Sexsmith, The Lowest of the Low, Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall, Anhai, and former Canadia ...
, directed by Caroline Azar (1994)
*''
The Yo-Yo Gang'' directed by G.B. Jones (1992)
*''
No Skin Off My Ass'' directed by
Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.
Life and career
LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario. He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce a ...
(1991)
*''Like This'' video for Fifth Column, directed by
Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.
Life and career
LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario. He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce a ...
and Fifth Column (1990)
*''
The Troublemakers'' directed by
G.B. Jones (1990)
Discography
''(For Fifth Column recordings, see
Fifth Column
A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine. Forces gathered in secret can mobilize ...
)''
* ''Apple Strudel Man'',
Jolly Tambourine Man
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(1984)
* ''It's A Wonderful Record!'',
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (1994)
* ''Kickstand'', Kickstand (Queenie) (1994)
* ''Messing With Greek Buck'',
Greek Buck
Greek Buck were a Canadians, Canadian musical duo, consisting of Don Pyle (formerly of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and Phono-Comb) and Andrew Zealley. They are best known for "Spunk", the theme song to the United States, American television ser ...
(1998)
* ''Bucquiem'', Greek Buck (2003)
* ''
Mississauga Goddam'',
The Hidden Cameras (2004)
References
External links
*
Official Caroline Azar You Tube channel
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian people of Russian-Jewish descent
Canadian people of Lebanese-Jewish descent
Canadian people of Italian-Jewish descent
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Canadian film actresses
Canadian rock keyboardists
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian women punk rock singers
Canadian punk rock singers
Singers from Toronto
Queercore musicians
Riot grrrl musicians
Writers from Toronto
Actresses from Toronto
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian women singers
Fifth Column (band) members
21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
Canadian LGBTQ singers
Canadian queer musicians