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them.”
Sherman has written extensively
for the stage, radio and television.
His works include Remnants (A
Fable); It’s All True; Patience;
Reading Hebron; The Retreat; The
League of Nathans; An Acre of Time
and Three in the Back, Two in the
Head, which won the Governor
General’s Literary Award for Drama.
He served as executive story editor
and writer on the TV series
ReGenesis, earning Gemini and
Canadian Screenwriting Award
nominations. He also created the
television adaptation of Vincent
Lam’s Giller Prize-winning story
collection Bloodletting and
Miraculous Cures. For CBC Radio
he wrote National Affairs, Irving
Invectus and Graf (for which he
received the Canadian Screenwriting
Award for radio drama), as well as
episodes of Afghanada. In 2003 and
2004 the Festival workshopped his
dramatization of The Brothers
Karamazov at the Studio Theatre
and the piece premièred at the Tom
Patterson Theatre in 2005.
Moscovitch is a 2001 graduate of
the National Theatre School’s acting
program. East of Berlin, written
while she was part of the Tarragon
Playwrights Unit, premièred at that
theatre in the fall of 2007 and has
been seen across Canada and most
recently in Chicago. Her plays Essay
and The Russian Play premièred at
Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival in
2005 where they won the Contra
Guys Award for Best New Play and
the Jury Prize for Best New
Production, respectively. Both were
remounted as part of a double bill at
Factory Theatre in 2008. A native of
Ottawa, Moscovitch now lives in
Toronto. She is playwright-in-
residence at Tarragon Theatre, where
her play The Children’s Republic
will be seen as part of the 2011-12
season. Moscovitch also participated
in an individual residency with the
Festival two summers ago.
Gaboriau will translate Michel
Tremblay’s newest work, L’Oratorio
de Noël, which will première in
Montreal in February. Born in
Boston, she has lived in Montreal
since 1963. Her critically-acclaimed
translations of more than 100 plays
include the works of some of
Quebec’s most prominent writers,
including Michel Tremblay and
Michel Marc Bouchard. As a literary
manager and dramaturge, Gaboriau
has held numerous translation
residencies and directed many
international exchange projects,
including the Banff International
Literary Translation Centre. Her
awards for stage translations include
two Chalmers Awards (Orphan
Muses by Michel Marc Bouchard –
1999; The Queens by Normand
Chaurette – 1993) and the Governor
General’s Translation Award for
Stone and Ashes by Daniel Danis
(1996). Her translation of Michel
Tremblay’s For the Pleasure of
Seeing Her Again was seen at
Stratford in 2010 and this fall she
was a participant in the Festival’s
annual Playwrights’ Retreat.
At the end of his first season in
2008, McAnuff began a new series
of commissions, now totalling eight
projects, two of which have already
been produced at Stratford: George
F. Walker’s King of Thieves and a
revised version of John Mighton’s
The Little Years, which opened to
rave reviews in July. A third,
Learning the Christmas ABCs
The Grade 1/2 class at East Wawanosh Public School taught the audience at their Dec. 19
Christmas Concert the ABCs of Christmas. Shown taking their turn to educate the audience
are Alycia Coultes and Connor and Grace Hallahan. (Denny Scott photo)
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