Ken Brand is a

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playwright from

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.Glenn Sumi, "Gay theatre scores big with its target audience: Canada's homosexual community is large, rich and self-aware -- and playwrights are cashing in on it. Who cares if the critics don't always approve?" ''

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'', March 14, 1998. One of the significant figures in the emergence of

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theatre in Canada in the 1990s, he is most noted for his play ''The Bathhouse Suite'', which appears in the

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-edited anthology ''Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays'' alongside plays by

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, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur,

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. His other plays included ''Benchmarks'' and ''Burying Michael''.Kate Taylor, "Comedy well buried in bland play". ''

'', January 20, 2001.

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