Rick Chafe is a
Canadian
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playwright from
Winnipeg
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,
Manitoba
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. He is most noted for his play ''The Secret Mask'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the
Governor General's Award for English-language drama
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Because the awa ...
at the
2014 Governor General's Awards.
His other plays have included ''Zac and Speth'',
["Six projects at one time turn playwright into juggler". '']Winnipeg Free Press
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'', June 29, 2006. ''The Last Man and Woman on Earth'',
[ ''Marriage: A Demolition in Two Acts'', adaptations of ]Homer
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's ''The Odyssey
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''[ and Leon Rooke's '' Shakespeare's Dog'',]["Shakespeare's Dog a furball of fun". '']Ottawa Citizen
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History
Established as the Bytown ''Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris (journalist), William Harris, it was renamed the ''Ci ...
'', March 22, 2008. and a collaboration with Danny Schur on the musical '' Strike!''.[
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20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Winnipeg
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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