Daniel Macdonald
Daniel is an award-winning playwright and creator/educator. Plays for grownups include Iago Speaks, Blow Wind, A History of Breathing, Velocity, MacGregor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas, and Pageant and have been produced across Canada, The U.S., and U.K. For young people he is the author/co-author of The Romeo Project, These Things I Know, Radiant Boy, HERE, and Blind Love. He is the co-ordinator/dramturge of New Voices program at GTNT (Saskatoon). He holds an MFA and M.Ed as well as a BA and B.Ed. His work has been short-listed for the Carol Bolt Award and for Saskatchewan Book of the Year. Daniel is a two-time recipient of the City of Regina Writing Award and of the Saskatchewan Arts and Learning Award. His work is published by Playwrights Canada Press and Bloomsbury Plays (U.K.). Dan is writer-in-residence at St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon where he lives with Melanie, Xavier, little Augie, and Fenster The Cat.
