When was allan stratton born

Web site: www. Last updated Since October , Athabasca University has hosted the web site, with an editorial board of theatre scholars from across Canada. To submit an entry, please consult the guidelines for submissions. The Encyclopedia collects and disseminates information on plays, playwrights and theatre practitioners. It does not respond to requests for information, auditions, bookings, or tickets. The Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia web site was originally conceived and developed in by Gaetan Charlebois—theatre critic, playwright, and actor.

He was born in Stratford, Ontario. Stratton grew up in London, ON and attended Oakridge Secondary School; it was here that his professional arts career began.

While he was in high school, Canadian poet and playwright, James Reaney published his play The Rusting Heart in the literary magazine Alphabet. It was broadcasted on CBC Radio in In , he received a full scholarship to study at Neuchatel Junior College, Switzerland for his final year of high school.

Stratton began his career in theatre while he was still in high school. At a young age, music and fairy tales inspired his love for creating, and by the age of five, he was composing and performing plays for his friends and their parents.

When he was in sixth grade, he wrote a play about Henry Hudson, which was performed by his class. C Radio. After graduating high school, he pursued acting at the Stratford Festival and earned his masters degree in drama at the University of Toronto.

Between to , Stratton wrote and acted for the Vancouver Playhouse. Throughout this period, Stratton continued to write, and in his first professional stage play, 72 Under the 0 , was produced by Christopher Newtonat the Vancouver Playhouse. A few years later, he turned to writing fulltime, thanks to the success of Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii , a play that has had over three hundred productions internationally.

Papers , another of his plays with an international publication and production record, followed soon after. Stratton returned to Canada in the late s, and moved to Montreal , where he wrote the comedy-of-bad-manners Bag Babies , which opened at Theatre Passe Muraille in A few years later, he was commissioned to adapt Dracula for the Skylight Theatre.

A female van Helsing, a comic look at Victorian mores, and a recreation of the novel's sweep distinguish this adaptation which was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, Large Theatre Division, In the mid s, Stratton headed the Drama Department at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, where he taught senior directing, acting and playwriting.

However, classroom and administrative duties restricted his creative time and consequently he returned to fulltime writing. For the past few years, his focus has been fiction.