John Lazarus

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Website: johnlazarus.ca


Photographer: Lin Bennett

John Lazarus was born in Montreal, graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada, has been an award-winning professional playwright since 1970, and was a founding member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. His plays – produced all over the world, and extensively published and translated – include Village of Idiots, Dreaming and Duelling, Babel Rap, The Late Blumer, The Nightingale, Genuine Fakes, Homework & Curtains, Medea’s Disgust, Rough Magic, The Grandkid, Trouble on Dibble Street, Exposure, and the TYA plays Not So Dumb and Night Light. He taught playwriting and related subjects for 10 years at Studio 58 and for 21 years at Queen’s University, and is the author of the book Two Ways About It: The Inside and Outside of Playwriting (J. Gordon Shillingford, Winnipeg, 2023). He is old, white, male, straight, Jewish, and anti-ageist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic and anti-war.

Plays Available at the Canadian Play Outlet:

Two Ways About It: The Inside and Outside of Playwriting

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The Grandkid

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Babel Rap

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Schoolyard Games

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Exposure

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Dreaming and Duelling

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Autographed Copies

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The Illegal Playwriting Class

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Secrets

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Not So Dumb

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Ice: Beyond Cool

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Yuppie Ciao

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Old Enough to Kill

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The Late Blumer (1 Act)

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The Trials of Eddy Haymour

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Medea's Disgust

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John Lazarus's Shorts

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The Late Blumer (2 Acts)

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The Nightingale

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Rough Magic

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Trouble on Dibble Street

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Genuine Fakes

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Chester, You Owe My Bird An Apology

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Night Light

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Totally Nana's Ride

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Fighting Fear at the Bus Stop

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Puppets

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David For Queen

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Village of Idiots

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