Drama Anthologies (multiple Authors)
You're Making A Scene
Scenes from Canadian Plays
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1993
- Category
- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887544897
- Publish Date
- Apr 1993
- List Price
- $26
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
More than 50 two- and three-person scenes in every style from mainstage smash hits to small and exhilarating backspace and fringe plays.
Includes work from Bill Ballantyne, Sally Clark, Linda Griffiths, Paul Ledoux, Joan MacLeod, John Murrell, Aviva Ravel, Dianne Warren and many, many more.
About the authors
David Ferry is a director, dramaturge, actor, and teacher. He was the consulting artistic director of Resurgence Theatre Company and the York Shakespeare Festival. David was also artistic director of Bluewater Summer Playhouse in Kincardine, Ontario from 1998â??2002. David won the 2006 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Direction for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (also Best Production Dora) and was invited to the 2006 Festival Intercity in Florence, Italy where he directed Brendan Gallâ??s Alias Godot in Italian. As a dramaturge, David has worked with a number of writers including Florence Gibson MacDonald, Brendan Gall, Fides Krucker, Kelly McIntosh, Paul Ledoux, David Smyth, John Roby, James Reaney, Robert Priest, Drew Hayden Taylor, and Tom Walmsley. David has worked as an actor at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Festival and in most theatres across the country as well as on and off Broadway in New York.
David works as frequently in film, television, and radio as he does on stage, and has been nominated for or won acting awards such as the Dora Mavor Moore, Genie, Gemini, and Nellie. He has taught acting at theatre schools across Canada, and has recorded an internationally recognized CD collection of Canadian dialects for the actor (Canadian, Eh?). David has served on the executives of CAEA, ACTRA, and is currently a Governor of Actra Fraternal Benefit Society. David was a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada (1973) and has his Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing from the University of Victoria (2003), where he focused on the work of James Reaney. In 2011, David was the recipient of the Barbara Hamilton Memorial Award.
As both an actor and teacher, Marion Gilsenan has been part of Canadian theatre for decades. She's worked with John Palmer, George F. Walker, Michel Tremblay, and Margaret Hollingsworth and is a former board member of the Actors' Fund of Canada.
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When not acting on stage, Tony Hamill is reading plays. A former managing editor at Playwrights Canada Press, Tony holds a degree in journalism and political science from Carleton University.
Ann Jansen has worked as a dramaturge and script editor, as well as working on the program Vanishing Point. She is the editor two anthologies of radio plays, Airborne: Radio Plays by Women and Adventures for (Big) Girls, both published by Blizzard Publishing. She also worked for Playwrights Canada Press as an editor in the early eighties.