John MacLachlan Gray

Born in Ottawa and raised in Nova Scotia, John MacLachlan Gray is a multiple award-winning writer and composer for stage, television, film, radio and print. In past decades he has worked as a theatre director; as a composer/librettist of stage musicals; as a satirist on CBC TV’s The Journal; as a magazine journalist; as a screenwriter; as columnist for The Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun; and as the author of seven acclaimed novels.
Over that period, he wrote and composed 8 musicals: 18 Wheels, Billy Bishop Goes To War (with Eric Peterson), Rock and Roll, Don Messer’s Jubilee, Health, Amelia: The Girl Who Wants To Fly and The Tree, The Tower, The Flood (for CBC Radio).
He has received more than enough awards – 2 Doras, a Chalmers Award, a Governor-General’s Medal, and Officer of the Order of Canada.
Over the past 25 years, between re-stagings of Billy Bishop Goes To War, he has been writing crime novels. 
In the world of Canadian Theatre, he expects to be remembered for Billy Bishop Goes To War with his lifelong friend Eric Peterson, and not much else, really.

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