Curtis Campbell Explained

Curtis Campbell (formerly Curtis te Brinke) is a Canadian writer.[1] He is most noted for his 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival play Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay, which he cowrote with Daniel Krolik.[2]

Krolik and Campbell received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Original Play, Independent Theatre in 2023.[3] They returned to the 2023 Fringe Festival with the sequel show Blake and Clay's Gay Agenda.[4]

An alumnus of Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton, Ontario, he won an Outstanding Performance award at the Ontario Drama Festival in 2012.[5] He subsequently studied theatre at York University.[6]

In 2016, Campbell and Sadie Epstein-Fine self-produced the play Tire Swing at Toronto's Kensington Hall.[6]

Campbell's debut novel, Dragging Mason County was published by Annick Press in fall 2023.[7] [8] It was a finalist for the inaugural Jacqueline Woodson Award in 2024.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Glenn Sumi, "Fringe review: Gay For Pay With Blake & Clay is straight-up brilliant" . Now, July 12, 2022.
  2. Karen Fricker, "Pitch-perfect Fringe festival satire takes aim at straight culture's representation of LGBTQ+ experience" . Toronto Star, July 13, 2022.
  3. Hélène Crowley, "Announcing the 2023 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners" . Intermission Magazine, June 27, 2023.
  4. Glenn Sumi, "They had a hit Fringe play about coaching straight actors to play gay. They're back to send up the queer community" . Toronto Star, July 1, 2023.
  5. Elizabeth Saldivar, "CHSS students win three awards at Sears Drama Festival ; Curtis Te Brinke and Hugh Lobb's two-person play moves on to regionals". Seaforth Huron Expositor, April 4, 2012.
  6. Chris Dupuis, "Why two young queer artists are self-producing their own play" . Xtra Magazine, October 17, 2016.
  7. Web site: 2023-08-17 . Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell . 2024-06-09 . www.publishersweekly.com.
  8. News: August 15, 2023 . 25 Canadian YA books to read in fall 2023 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230818011944/https://www.cbc.ca/books/25-canadian-ya-books-to-read-in-fall-2023-1.6893264 . August 18, 2023 . August 18, 2023 . CBC Books.
  9. Web site: 2024-03-18 . 2024 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Announced . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240428141600/https://publishingtriangle.org/2024/03/2024-publishing-triangle-awards-finalists-announced/ . 2024-04-28 . 2024-05-20 . . en-US.

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