Playwright-in-Person

Raised in Ottawa, Douglas Bowie fell into a writing career when he entered a CBC-TV contest on a whim while working for a local ad agency. His teleplay, Who Was the Lone Ranger?, won a top prize and launched a thirty-year career, during which he has written a wide range of film and TV dramas. These include The Man Who Wanted To Be Happy, The Newcomers, The Boy in Blue (starring Nicholas Cage), Obsessed, the mini-series Chasing Rainbows, the Gemini Award winning Love and Larceny, Grand Larceny, and the Christmas perennial Must Be Santa (starring Dabney Coleman).

He won an ACTRA Award for the hit CBC mini-series Empire, Inc. and a Gemini Award for an outstanding body of work in television. He edited the book Best Canadian Screenplays, and added playwriting to his repertoire in the 90’s. His plays include the
award-winning comedy The Noble Pursuit, !SGODSDOGS!, Goodbye, Piccadilly, Love and Larceny (the musical), and Rope’s End. He lives in Kingston and is currently playwright-in-residence at the Thousand Island Playhouse.

Douglas will read from his body of works on Friday May 15 in the foyer of the playhouse at 2 p.m. Douglas Bowie’s appearance is made possible by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts through Playwrights Guild of Canada.