Dan Bray
Pronouns: He/Him
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Website: https://www.brayowulf.ca; https://www.villainstheatre.com
Photographer: Jamie Kronick
Dan Bray (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist living in beautiful Kjipuktuk (Halifax). As artistic director of The Villains Theatre, he has written, directed, and adapted many shows (including Deepwater, International Waters, Shakespeare’s Time Machine, Hänsel und Gretel in: der Garten von Edible Horrors, Observatory Mansions, and Zomblet). He is a 10-time Merritt Award nominee and the 2022 Merritt Award winner for “Outstanding Adaptation by a Nova Scotia Playwright” (Hänsel und Gretel). Most recently, his original mystery Deepwater received the national Tom Hendry Drama Award, and was named “First Runner Up” for the inaugural Jenny Munday Atlantic Canadian Play Award. In 2023, he received an East Coast Music Award nomination for Dinostories (“Children’s Entertainer of the Year”), and his work has been performed across the maritimes, as well as in British Columbia and Ontario.
Dan is a Merritt Co-Host/Producer, the former Vice Chair for the Halifax Fringe Festival, and a two-time attendee of Playwright Atlantic Resource Centre’s annual retreat. He received his MA from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama in 2009.
