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]
His novel Dragging Mason County is slated for publication in fall 2023.[7]
References edit
- ^ Glenn Sumi, "Fringe review: Gay For Pay With Blake & Clay is straight-up brilliant". Now, July 12, 2022.
- ^ Karen Fricker, "Pitch-perfect Fringe festival satire takes aim at straight culture’s representation of LGBTQ+ experience". Toronto Star, July 13, 2022.
- ^ Hélène Crowley, "Announcing the 2023 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners". Intermission Magazine, June 27, 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Chris Dupuis, "Why two young queer artists are self-producing their own play". Xtra Magazine, October 17, 2016.
- ^ CBC Books (August 15, 2023). "25 Canadian YA books to read in fall 2023". CBC. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
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