Brian Drader

{{short description|Canadian stage actor and playwright|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox writer | name = Brian Drader | birth_name = | image = | birth_date = 1960 | birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | occupation = playwright | period = 1980s-present | notableworks = ''{{notatypo|Prok}}'', ''The Fruit Machine'' | spouse = | website = }} '''Brian Drader''' (born 1960) is a Canadian stage actor and playwright.<ref name=crop>[http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/historic/31389799.html "Manitoban Drader among 'fresh crop'"]. ''Winnipeg Free Press'', October 21, 2003.</ref> He is best known for his plays ''{{notatypo|Prok}}'', about Alfred Kinsey and Clara McMillen,<ref name=crop /> and ''The Fruit Machine'', about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's controversial 1960s fruit machine project to identify homosexual people.<ref>"Opposite eras attract in gay history story". ''Vancouver Sun'', October 23, 1998.</ref>

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, he is currently based in Montreal, Quebec, where he teaches playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada.<ref>"Mother's Day shows feature veteran voices". ''Windsor Star'', May 5, 2007.</ref>

His other plays have included ''Easter Eggs'',<ref>"What's to see at Fringe?" ''Calgary Herald'', August 25, 1989.</ref> ''TuckTuck'',<ref>"Three new writers join playRites stable". ''Calgary Herald'', August 22, 1992.</ref> ''The Author's Voice'',<ref>"Fringe buzzes under greasepaint and sweat". ''Edmonton Journal'', August 16, 1992.</ref> ''The Norbals'',<ref name=voaden>"Playwriting contest winners announced". ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', May 6, 1997.</ref> ''Mind of the Iguana'',<ref>"Cover / fringe". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', July 12, 2007.</ref> ''Liar'',<ref>[http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/not-quite-ok/content?oid=8291644 "Not quite OK"]. ''Sacramento News & Review'', November 8, 2012.</ref> ''To Be Frank'',<ref>[http://pre2010.thelinknewspaper.ca/articles/2523 "Sit up and pay attention"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216100357/http://pre2010.thelinknewspaper.ca/articles/2523 |date=2014-12-16 }}. ''The Link'', March 23, 2010.</ref> ''Everybody's Business'' and ''Curtsy''.

==Awards== He won the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition in 1997 for ''The Norbals''.<ref name=voaden/>

''{{notatypo|Prok}}'' was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2003 Governor General's Awards,<ref name=gglist>"Big surprises as book awards shortlisted". ''Edmonton Journal'', October 21, 2003.</ref> and won the Lambda Literary Award for drama at the 16th Lambda Literary Awards.<ref>[http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/entertainment-news/2004/06/11/bram-revoyr-among-lambda-literary-winners-12733 "Bram, Revoyr among Lambda Literary winners"]. ''The Advocate'', June 10, 2004.</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== *[http://ent-nts.ca/en/about/biographies/detail/drader/brian/ Brian Drader] at the National Theatre School of Canada *[https://briandrader.com/ Brian Drader] official website

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