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2004 Winners Photos & Bios Winners: Darrell Racine & Dale Lakevold / Marcus Hondro / David James Brock |
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2004 Winner -
Darrell Racine
Dale Lakevold |
Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold -
Stretching Hide Darrell Racine is a Metis playwright from Brandon, Manitoba. His play Misty Lake, co-written with Dale Lakevold, has been produced in Brandon, Winnipeg, Prince George, and Calgary, and has toured Northern Manitoba. It was produced in Calgary at the Crazy Horse Aboriginal Theatre Festival in 2002 by Tina Keeper, who also performed in the play with Tantoo Cardinal. Education publisher Loon Books will be releasing a new edition of the play in 2005 which will include a CD and instructor’s manual. His play Stretching Hide was published in a special issue on the Metis in the Brandon University journal Ecclectica. He is presently at work on a full-length screenplay, Moosum-Asini, about an urban Aboriginal girl’s experiences on a northern reserve and in the city. Darrell is a graduate of Harvard and Cambridge. He is currently completing his doctorate at Oxford University and teaching Native Studies at Brandon University. Dale
Lakevold lives in Minnedosa, Manitoba. His work has been produced primarily
in Manitoba, including the North. He was a finalist for the John Hirsch Award in 1999. His
play Misty Lake, written with Darrell Racine, was published by Adler & Ringe
in 2001 and by Kingfisher in the anthology Voice of the Drum in 2000. Misty Lake will be published in a new edition in 2005 by Loon
Books (MB). |
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2004 Winner -
Marcus Hondro
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Marcus
Hondro - Jonathan & Judith Marcus is an actor and writer from Victoria who now lives and works in Vancouver. As an actor he has been in dozens of tv shows and films, over 20 stage plays and numerous radio sketches. He has twice been nominated for a Jessie Award and was for 5 years a playing member of the Vancouver TheatreSports League. Marcus' writing credits include short stories, journalism, writing three scripts for television and two short plays produced. He currently is working on a full-length stage play, The Comfort Song. He and his toddler have undertaken to learn the guitar together. "We do a pretty wicked version of Leaving On A Jet Plane", he claims. |
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David
James Brock- The Perfect Hands of the Irresistible Ed David is a product of the University of Victoria's Writing Department. He also holds a degree in Zoology from the University of Manitoba. Since moving to British Columbia from Winnipeg, he has been associated with Deep Cove Stage Society (North Vancouver), Intrepid Theatre (Victoria) and The Victoria Shakespeare Society. The Perfect Hands of the Irresistible Ed is his first full length play. His short plays include Simon and Garfunkel Solve String Theory and The Romantic Animal (which will be included in the 2005 FIND Festival). His poetry has appeared in various publications, most recently, Witness: An Anthology of Poetry (Serengeti Press). David has also served as Drama Editor and contributor to the University of Victoria's literary journal, This Side of West. |
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| 2004 Finalists (in random order) | ||
| 2004 - Finalist
Carac Allison |
Carac
Allison - Cardboard Boxes Carac worked as a part-time theatre critic for Scene magazine in London for 3 years. During that time he reviewed regional summer productions and did a series of pieces on the major Toronto theatres. His second play entitled Luck is a Lady was produced by a theatre group at York University in his first year as an undergraduate. He now works at the University of Western Ontario and continues to write. |
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2004 Finalist Paul Kinsella |
Paul
Kinsella - The Priest Paul writes for both stage and screen, concentrating on independent projects and situation comedy. He has a Bachelor's degree in Film Studies from the University of Western Ontario and studied theatre at Yale. Paul plans to stage four of his new works in 2005, and would like to thank Theatre BC for the opportunity this competition offers to Canadian writers. |
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Mitch Grace |
Mitch Grace -
Reality Play Mitch has lived in the beautiful Okanagan Valley for 23 years now and Reality Play is his “fifth time lucky” entry in the Canadian National Playwriting Competition. He has been writing plays since 1993 and, as a self taught playwright, his writing has evolved and developed by way of trial and error as well as from receiving positive feedback and critiques from Playwrights Theatre Centre of Vancouver. Mitch has written 30 plays of various lengths: fringe comedies, drama, romance, suspense and mystery genres. He also enjoys working in vineyards where his imagination really lights up in the greenery and fresh air. He has the "antennae" out constantly, looking for ideas, sometimes “bumping” into them. Mitch gets the idea, the time and the place, gets the people in his head, gets them involved with each other and pulls back the curtain; letting them go for it, letting them speak, letting them live and play out the big “What If” for all it’s worth. Playwriting is a blast, and Mitch is hungry for more. He also loves acting. Currently Mitch is editing a play he wrote this past summer. |
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Eileen
Gordon- The Starlight Tour Eileen lives in Victoria, BC, with her family. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from UVIC. She is interested in writing and in the past has written for CBC radio as well as various newspapers and magazines. Eileen studies playwriting at the BelfryTheatre in Victoria and won the 2004 Rona Murray Literary Competition for plays sponsored by the Greater Victoria Arts Council. In 1999, she was awarded first prize by the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria for her play, The Harvest. |
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