{{Short description|Canadian playwright (born 1945)}} '''Larry Fineberg''' (born 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright. He is most noted for his 1976 play ''Eve'', an adaptation of Constance Beresford-Howe's novel ''The Book of Eve'' which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.<ref>"Playwrights share award for best play". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 1, 1977.</ref>
Originally from the Côte-Saint-Luc borough of Montreal, Fineberg briefly attended McGill University<ref>"Fineberg attacks obsession with past". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 15, 1977.</ref> before transferring to Emerson College in Boston.<ref name=cte>[http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Fineberg%2C%20Larry "Fineberg, Larry"]. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 13, 2010.</ref> While there, he was a producer of several theatre productions, including ''Fiddler on the Roof'' and ''Cabaret'', and worked as an assistant director to Frank Loesser.<ref name=cte /> He returned to Canada in 1972, and his first play ''Stonehenge Trilogy'' was staged by Toronto's Factory Theatre that year.<ref name=cte />
His other plays have included ''Death'' (1972),<ref name=cte /> ''Hope'' (1972),<ref name=cte /> ''All the Ghosts'' (1973), ''Lady Celeste's Tea'' (1974), ''Waterfall'' (1974), ''Human Remains'' (1975),<ref name=cte /> ''Fresh Disasters'' (1976), ''Life on Mars'' (1979), ''Montreal'' (1981),<ref name=cte /> ''Devotion'' (1985),<ref name=cte /> ''Failure of Nerve'' (1991), ''Doctor's Liver'' (1992), ''The Final Solution'' (1992) and ''The Clairvoyant'' (2000),<ref>"Strong cast molds new play". ''Toronto Star'', March 9, 2000.</ref> as well as an adaptation of ''Medea'' which was staged at the Stratford Festival in 1978.<ref>"Electric Medea holds the stage". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 3, 1978.</ref>
Fineberg was a writer-in-residence at Stratford and Buddies in Bad Times,<ref name=cte /> and a founding member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.<ref name=cte />
Many of Fineberg's plays addressed gay themes.<ref name=cte /> Fineberg identified himself as bisexual.<ref>David Booth and Kathleen Gallagher, ''How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars and Advocates''. University of Toronto Press, 2003. {{ISBN|9780802085566}}. p. 184.</ref>
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