Kevin Kerr (born 1968 in

Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

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) is a Canadian playwright, actor, director and founding member of

Electric Company Theatre Electric Company Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. History The Electric Company Theatre was originally formed as a collective in 1996 by Kim Collier, David Hudgins, Kevin Kerr and current Art ...

. From 2007 to 2010, he was Lee Playwright in Residence at

University of Alberta The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta, ) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, t ...

. He was born in Vancouver and grew up in

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. He studied theatre at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

, and at Studio 58,

Langara College Langara College (snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ in ''Halkomelem'') is a public degree-granting college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada which serves more than 19,000 students annually. Langara College started in 1965 as part of Vancouver Community ...

. He has co-authored several plays with Electric Company Theatre based in

including ''The Wake'', ''The Score'', ''Dora Flor'' and ''Her Two Husbands'', ''Flop'', ''The Fall'', and ''Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla''. His 2001 play ''Unity (1918)'' explores the Influenza epidemic of 1918 and won the 2002

Governor General's Award The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...

for Drama.

Published works

*''Unity (1918)''. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 2002. . *''Brilliant!: The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla''. Victoria, BC: Brindle and Glass, 2004. *''Studies in Motion.'' Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 2008. . *''Skydive''. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 2010. .

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Electric Company Theatre
1968 births Living people 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Writers from Vancouver University of British Columbia alumni Male actors from Vancouver Governor General's Award–winning dramatists Canadian male stage actors Canadian male dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian male writers Studio 58 people {{Canada-playwright-stub