John Lazarus
JOHN
LAZARUS
Playwright: Trouble on Dibble
Street
John Lazarus was born in Montreal in
1947, graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in
1969, and soon afterwards moved to Vancouver, where he worked
for 30 years as a playwright, teacher (at Studio 58 and the
Vancouver Film School), actor, critic, broadcaster and
screenwriter. Since 2000 he has taught in the Drama Department
at Queen's University, and, briefly, at the National Theatre
School.
John's plays include Babel
Rap, Dreaming and Duelling,
Village of Idiots, The Late
Blumer, Homework &
Curtains, Genuine Fakes,
The Trials of Eddy Haymour, Medea's
Disgust, Rough Magic,
Meltdown, and adaptations of Andersen's
The Nightingale and Feydeau's
The Hotel Freedom. His four one-act
plays for young audiences are published by Playwrights Press
as the anthology Not So Dumb. Village of
Idiots, Rough Magic and
Meltdown have all been produced by
Theatre Kingston, in productions directed by Craig
Walker.
John's playwrighting students now
include not one, but two Governor General's Award winners, the most
recent being Kevin Loring in 2009.
John lives in Kingston with his wife
Lin. He has two daughters and three granddaughters in
Vancouver.