{{short description|Canadian playwright (born 1960)}} '''Bryden MacDonald''' (born October 30, 1960, in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia)<ref name=canenc>[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/bryden-macdonald Bryden MacDonald] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022060618/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/bryden-macdonald |date=October 22, 2012 }} at The Canadian Encyclopedia.</ref> is a Canadian playwright.
His best known plays include ''Whale Riding Weather'', which was a nominated for the Governor General's Award for English drama at the 1994 Governor General's Awards, and ''With Bated Breath'', which was a shortlisted nominee in the Drama category at the 2011 Lambda Literary Awards.<ref>[http://www.lambdaliterary.org/23rd-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/ 23rd Lambda Literary Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608020743/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/23rd-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/ |date=2019-06-08 }}. Lambda Literary Foundation.</ref> His other plays include ''The Weekend Healer'' (1994), ''Divinity Bash / nine lives'' (1998) and ''The Extasy of Bedridden Riding Hood'' (2004). He was nominated again for the Governor General's Award for English drama for ''Odd Ducks'' (2015),<ref name=columbia>Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn, ''The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama: M-Z, Volume 2'' (p. 843). Columbia University Press, 2007. {{ISBN|9780231144247}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=MacDonald tries out a lighter touch |url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/137636-macdonald-tries-out-a-lighter-touch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111101735/http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/137636-macdonald-tries-out-a-lighter-touch |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |access-date=May 8, 2026 |work=The Chronicle Herald |language=en}}</ref> He has also helmed musical tributes to Leonard Cohen (''Sincerely, A Friend'', 1991), Carole Pope and Rough Trade (''Shaking the Foundations'', 1999) and Joni Mitchell (''When All the Slaves Are Free'', 2003).<ref name=canenc />
MacDonald is also a theatre director, most noted for his productions of Tennessee Williams' ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'', Joe Orton's ''What the Butler Saw'' and Judith Thompson's ''Perfect Pie''.<ref name=columbia /> He has taught at the National Theatre School of Canada, and served as playwright in residence at the Stratford Festival.<ref name=canenc />
He is openly gay.<ref name=columbia />
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Kevin De Ornellas, "Bryden MacDonald". In Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn, eds, The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, 2 volumes (Columbia University Press, 2007), volume 2, pp. 844-44. ISBN 9780231140324.