Jason Sherman (born 1962 in Montreal) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made
After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produced what, a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990. York University (Université York is a public Research university located in Toronto, Ontario. Before establishing himself as a dramatist, Sherman's journalistic works such as reviews, essays, and interviews appeared in various publications, including The Globe and Mail, Canadian Theatre Review and Theatrum. The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English language nationally distributed Newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities
He edited two anthologies for Coach House Press, Canadian Brash (1991) and Solo (1993), and has been a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre since 1992. Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario. The Tarragon Theatre was founded in 1970 by Bill and Jane Glassco near Casa Loma in Toronto.
Sherman's first professional productions were A Place Like Pamela (1991) and To Cry is Not So (1991), followed by The League of Nathans (1992, published in book form in 1996), which won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1993), and was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English language drama. The Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play Awards were a Canadian literary award given to Canadian plays produced by any professional Canadian theatre company and having at least This is a list of the Canadian Governor General's Award winners for Drama. Since then, Sherman has produced a series of plays, and has written for television and radio, including the CBC Radio series Afghanada and the television adaptation of Vincent Lam's Giller Prize-winning story collection Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. CBC Radio is the Radio division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Afghanada is an award-winning Canadian Radio drama series currently airing on CBC Radio One. Vincent Lam (born September 5 1974) is a Canadian writer and medical doctor The Scotiabank Giller Prize is an award that goes to the author of a Canadian Novel or Short story Fiction collection published in Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures is a Short story collection by Vincent Lam, published in 2006
In the November 2007 issue of This Magazine, Sherman wrote an article revealing that he was giving up his theatre work to concentrate on screenwriting, after his theatre royalties for the entire previous year produced an income of just $791. For the American poetry magazine see This (magazine. This Magazine is a left-wing independent Canadian political magazine 91.
Works
- A Place Like Pamela (1991)
- To Cry is Not So (1991)
- The League of Nathans (1992)
- What the Russians Say (1993)
- Field (1993)
- The Merchant of Showboat (1993)
- Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1994)
- Reading Hebron (1995)
- The Retreat (1996)
- None is Too Many (1997)
- Patience (1998)
- It's All True (1999)
- An Acre of Time (1999/2000)
- Afghanada (2006)
External links
Afghanada is an award-winning Canadian Radio drama series currently airing on CBC Radio One.Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic