Blaine Newton
Pronouns: He/Him
Photographer: Leslie Greentree
Blaine is a playwright, sketch and fiction writer, improviser, actor, and a recovering engineer.
When not talking about himself in the third person, he’s been in shows you’ve never seen, published in anthologies you’ve never read, designed roads you’ve never driven down, and written plays for an audience of well under a million people.
His recent theatre productions include Conversations with Cows, Cursive Writing Productions; The Kyleness of Kyle, Cursive Writing Productions, The Thin Grey Line, Cursive Writing Productions; Bravo, Shadow Theatre; Five Stages of Death, Cursive Writing Productions; and Oral Fixations (co-written with author Leslie Greentree), Ignition Theatre.
His recent publications include the Stories By the Numbers, Freefall Magazine, and Life in a Bottle, University of Bristol Anthology. His short story collection, Ragpickers, is schedule for publication with University of Calgary Press in 2025.