Playwright Robert More wins comedy award.
Etobicoke playwright Robert More is an actor, director and artistic director who has had more than 75 professional productions of 12 plays in Canada and internationally.
He is the winner of a comedy award for his latest work Jessica’s Fine Adventure.
He copped a Tom Hendry Award this week in a ceremony presented by the Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC).
Robert More’s award winning work Jessica Fine Adventure
“The play is an uproariously funny comedy with well-rounded characters and excellent tight dialogue,” according to a review.
His play Jessica’s Fine Adventure follows Jessica Quartermaine, 71, on a ‘journey of exploration full of twists and turns that leads her to learn to always remain open to possibility.’
The annual Tom Hendry Awards celebrate and recognize playwrights and theatre-creators across Canada for excellence in new work, according to a press release.
“Playwrights weave worlds from words and entire universes from just quiet thoughts,” said PGC Board President, Christopher Tolley.
The play Jook was also an award winner from the Playwrights Guild of Canada .
He said the Tom Hendry Awards celebrate the magic they create “as we honour our playwrights from coast to coast to coast.”
Winners also include Dan School with the Music Musical Award, Jook by Glenn Marais and Todd Phillips, who has received more than 12 writing and editing awards over a more than 25 year career as a journalist and editor.
And the Robert Beardsley Award went to Iphigenia in Dreaming by Cassandra Marcus Davey, a Toronto playwright, theatre technician, artist, who is pursuing an undergraduate degree in theatre and classical studies at the University of Toronto