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Daniel MacDonald

DANIEL MACDONALD  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Playwrights Guild of Canada  

Daniel Macdonald is an award winning playwright, teacher and director. Most recently, his play A History of Breathing received its world premiere at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon and was short-listed for the national Carol Bolt Award. It is published by Playwrights Canada Press. Other plays include Pageant, MacGregors Hard Ice Cream and Gas, Mercy, Radiant Boy and Johnny Zed The Musical! (The Musical). His film series Redemption, SK was televised in Canada and nominated for a Canadian Independent Series Award. As a teacher, Daniel has co-written several plays with and for high school students including Blind Love which was performed at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival. He is a recipient of the Enbridge National PlayRites award (Alberta Theatre Projects), a two-time recipient of the City of Regina Writers Award, and a two-time recipient of the SMPIA award for acting. He continues to teach high school and university classes, and splits his time between Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island.

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below is a list of Daniel MacDonald's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blind Love         History of Breathing, A         Johnny Zed The Musical         MacGregors Hard Ice Cream and Gas         Mercy         Pageant         Radiant Boy         Velocity

Blind Love

Synopsis:
asks what unexplainably draws two people to each other. Blind Love is the story of a boy and girl who one day set eyes on each other and are suddenly inextricably linked through, according to Chinese legend, the red string of fate. It is the story of all of us and our strange, obscure and marvellous connections to each other.

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1st Produced:
Pilrig Studio, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

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American High School Theatre Festival

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devised, satire 1 hour 30 minutes

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History of Breathing, A

Synopsis:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a great flood has claimed the land and many of its people. Two boats float aimlessly on an ocean that conceals the remains of civilization and history. One boat carries a father and daughter, the last survivors of an unspeakable catastrophe; the other carries the only hope for a new beginning. Daniel Macdonald crafts a stunning tale of myth and reality at the end of the world and at its creation.

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1st Produced:
Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon, SK    2012

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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada   978-1-77091-174-1

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Johnny Zed The Musical

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musical

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MacGregors Hard Ice Cream and Gas

Synopsis:
The MacGregor family patriarch has passed away, but the ground in their desolate prairie town is frozen solid, making it impossible to bury him. In a sudden desperate attempt to make things right, son Jack hijacks the body coffin and all up to his attic bedroom and holds his dead father hostage, keeping him cool with containers of their unique homemade ice cream. His mother, Marlene, has taken to pacing in circles in the basement, while his older brother is obsessed with fixing a sign for gas that they never sell. Into all of this walks Missy - gone for sixteen years, and ten and a half months pregnant. In this gothic prairie tale of love, loss, and redemption, playwright Daniel Macdonald weaves together a hilarious and touching work that blends the absurd with the all-too-real, darkness with blinding light, and bitter cold with the warmth of forgiveness.

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Playwrights Guild of Canada   978-0-88754-801-7

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Mercy

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Pageant

Synopsis:
Cars, pageants and plastic surgery. The isolation of the East Kootenay mountains leads to strange and beautiful acts. A darkly comic tale of beauty, loyalty and redemption. Trudy, Deer Ridge's own beauty queen, comes face-to-face with the broken realities of her dream-life and must turn to a most unlikely source for solace and truth.

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1st Produced:
Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary, AB    2003

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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada   978-1-55173-818-5

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Play/Drama

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Radiant Boy

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Velocity

Synopsis:
Dot doesn't hate her father, she just wants to explode him out of his office tower to shake things up. Set him off. See what happens. And get an "A" on her science project. . .Daring to challenge the law of physics, Dot interviews her flailing father and neurotic mother, as their world crashes to the ground. Just imagine. Your life in six seconds.

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part of the Saskatchewan Spring Festival of New Plays

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Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon, SK    -

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