| Brian Drader | |
| Birth Date: | 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Occupation: | playwright |
| Period: | 1980s-present |
| Notableworks: | , The Fruit Machine |
Brian Drader (born 1960) is a Canadian stage actor and playwright.[1] He is best known for his plays , about Alfred Kinsey and Clara McMillen, and The Fruit Machine, about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's controversial 1960s fruit machine project to identify homosexual people.[2]
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, he is currently based in Montreal, Quebec, where he teaches playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada.[3]
His other plays have included Easter Eggs,[4] TuckTuck,[5] The Author's Voice,[6] The Norbals,[7] Mind of the Iguana,[8] Liar,[9] To Be Frank,[10] Everybody's Business and Curtsy.
He won the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition in 1997 for The Norbals.[7]
was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2003 Governor General's Awards,[11] and won the Lambda Literary Award for drama at the 16th Lambda Literary Awards.[12]