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T BERTO

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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T. Berto's first play, BaSH, won the Toronto Fringe Best New Play Prize in 2000. the following year his play SKaTe IT OFF, BOBBY opened at the George Luscombe Theatre in Guelph. In 2002 his show Gypsies played at the Toronto Fringe Festival; a month later his one-man show, the Fifth Option, was chosen for the Summerworks Festival. In the winter of 2002 his play To the earth was workshopped at York University. In 2003 DUe PROCeSS was also chosen by the Summerworks Festival where its lead, Kelly Bolt, was named best performer by NOW Magazine. In the spring of 2004, his play the Painted Bird, was chosen for University of Lethbridge's Canadian Playwrights in Development series. Later that year, his play Guantanamara, played at the Summerworks Festival at Factory Theatre. His short play Captured played as part of Theatre ChAnnel creative collection in September 2004 at the Culture Vacuum in Toronto. In 2005 his play SeRVICeD, played the Fringe festival. In 2006 the Singularity Of Being, a play written under a seed grant from Canstage, was work-shopped by Rachel Ditor at the University of Lethbridge. His work CHRYSaLIS was presented by Theatre 8-0-8 in Calgary and his play FOUR WaYS 'tIL RaIN was work-shopped at Theatre and Company in Kitchener in both 2006 and 2007, and then played at 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. In 2008 a version of DOWNSTReaM (ROW) was read at Free Jane, Sky Gilbert's reading series as a part of pride celebration at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre. In Fall 2008 Cole J. alvis began work on a mixed media version of CHRYSaLIS. In 2009 a SINGULaRITY OF BeING won the macIDeaS/Fringe best new play prize and played at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre - directed by Ed Roy. the play then went on to win Best of the Fringe and subsequently played a further set of dates at Canstage in Toronto. In august that year DOWNSTReaM played at the Roundhouse Theatre in Vancouver as part of the Clean Sheets Festival. That fall SONNY was produced at edmonton's Loud 'n' Queer" Festival, as were short plays POWeR and DIGNITY in 2010 and 2011. In 2010 he was commissioned by KICKTheatre to write an adaptation of Ibsen's GHOSTS set in Duplessis' Quebec. T. Berto has also been a member of Factory Theatre's writer's lab (under Brian Quirt), Cahoots' Theatre Project's writer's group (under Guillermo Verdecchia), Theatre-ChAnnel Collective, (under Paul Rivers) Theatre and Company's Writer's Block (under Lisa O'Connell), and the Paper Door Playwrights Reading Series at Factory Theatre (under Bill Lane) in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 respectively. He has a B.A. and B.Sc. from University of Guelph and a M.F.A. from York University. His work has been published in Cormorant, the Fiddlehead, Canadian Literature, New Quarterly, the Fieldstone Review, Carousel, australAsian Drama Studies and Prairie Fire. His monologues are published in She Speaks, He Speaks, Gay and Lesbian Monologues, printed by Playwrights Canada Press. He received an Ontario Arts Council Grant in 2005 for his work FOUR WaYS 'tIL RaIN. FOUR WaYS 'tIL RaIN, SeRVICeD and SKaTe IT OFF, BOBBY are all available from the Playwright Guild of Canada (orders@playwrightsguild.ca). T. Berto is currently finishing a PhD. in Theatre Studies, where he received the Lambda prize in 2005 for his work in Queer studies.

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below is a list of T Berto's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Addenda To Skate It Off, Bobby         Bash         Downstream         Due Process         Fifth Option, The         Four Ways 'til Rain         Guantanamera         Gypsies         Painted Bird, The         Serviced         Singularity Of Being, A         Skate It Off, Bobby         To the Earth