Gil Garratt is a playwright, director, dramaturge, Dora award-winning actor, and theatre administrator who has worked across Canada and internationally. With a career that has been dedicated primarily to the development of new plays, Gil is currently Artistic Director of the Blyth Festival, one of Canada's premier houses for new work. Gil is the founding Artistic Director of his own new performance development company: Clawhammer, dedicated to creating and producing innovative, interdisciplinary performance. Several of Gil's plays have received multiple productions, toured internationally, and been translated into French. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School's Playwriting Program