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David S. Craig

Playwright

Bio

David S. Craig is Toronto based playwright and lyricist who has written over twenty-nine professionally produced dramatic works.

His plays and productions have won The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production three times, the Chalmers New Play Award three times, the Rideau Award for Outstanding Adaptation, The Canada Council Prize, The Writer’s Guild Prize for Radio Drama and a ‘Harold’.  He was the first Canadian to be nominated for the prestigious German Children’s Theatre Prize.

Toronto’s NOW Magazine named Mr. Craig, “One of Canada’s Top Twenty Playwrights”.

In 2014 he received the Barbara Hamilton Award which recognizes the highest level of artistic excellence and career achievement.

His plays include:

  • The Neverending Story – His epic adventure (adapted from the novel by Michael Ende) which has been produced across North America.
  • Having Hope at Home – His hit family comedy with twenty-two productions worldwide.
  • Bombers: Reaping the Whirlwind – His WWII drama and sold out hit of 4th Line Theatre’s 2017 season.
  • Double Trouble (aka The Parent Trap) with music by Marc Schubring which was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical Adaptation in Washington, DC.
  • Danny, King of the Basement – The story of a poor kid which has been produced and presented across North America and Europe to an audience of over 500,000 people.
  • Smokescreen – Translated into five languages.
  • The Fan – His award-winning adaptation from the original by Carlo Goldoni.
  • Napalm the Magnificent – His hit one-man show which toured extensively over a nine-year period including a commercial run at the John Houseman Theatre in Manhattan.

For more information go to:  www.davidscraig.com

Plays by Author

  • Athabasca

    By David S. Craig & Richard Greenblatt

  • BOMBERS: Reaping The Whirlwind

    By David S. Craig

  • Having Hope at Home

    By David S. Craig

  • The Neverending Story

    Adapted by David S. Craig, based on the novel by Michael Ende

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Awards

  • Three-time winner of The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production
  • Three-time winner of the Chalmers New Play Award
  • Winner of the Rideau Award for Outstanding Adaptation, The Canada Council Prize, The Writer’s Guild Prize for Radio Drama and a ‘Harold’.
  • Nominated for the prestigious German Children’s Theatre Prize.
  • Named “One of Canada’s Top Twenty Playwrights” by NOW Magazine.
  • Recipient of the Barbara Hamilton Award (2014) which recognizes the highest level of artistic excellence and career achievement.

Published Works

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“Henrik Ibsen said that “when you write, you sit in judgement on your soul”. During my thirty-five year commitment to live theatre, I have grappled with the complexities and contradictions of my own soul/conscience and those of the communities I live in – globally, nationally and in my home. I believe theatre art is one of the great civilizing forces of our age because the audience is asked to sit in judgement on the lives and actions of the characters. As the Greeks knew, this process is, at its best, a profound act of citizenship and I have seen the proof of this over and over again. Theatre strengthens and challenges our accepted morality. It grays and laughs at the strident colours of fascism. It encourages compassion for what I firmly believe is our shared humanity. My contribution to this process as a theatre artist is to try, with all the resources at my disposal, to create plays and productions where every second of stage time is essential to itself, as a work of art, and to the lives of the audience it reaches.”

David S. Craig
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