Sky Gilbert
Sky Gilbert is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director of Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre — one of the world’s largest gay and lesbian theatres — from 1979 to 1997. He has had more than 40 plays produced, and written 9 critically acclaimed novels and three award winning poetry collections. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards as well as the Pauline McGibbon Award, The Silver Ticket Award — and the ReLit Award for his novel An English Gentleman. There is a street in Toronto named after him: ‘Sky Gilbert Lane.’ Sky has written several books about Shakespeare’s rhetoric praised by international stellar scholars (like Alexander Waugh and Alexander Leggatt). He has discovered previously unnoticed links between Shakespeare’s work and Hermogenes of Tarsus, Gorgias, and the mannerist painters. His second book about Shakespeare — Shakespeare Lied — was published by Guernica Editions in 2024. He is presently working on his third book about Shakespeare (focused on sexuality in the plays) tentatively titled Shakespeare’s Effeminacy. Dr. Gilbert is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph (where he taught theatre and creative writing from 1998-2022).
Plays Available at the Canadian Play Outlet:
In Which Pier Paolo Pasolini Sees His Own Death in the Face of a Boy: A Defacement in the Form of a Play
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