Norm Foster to speak in Nanaimo

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Friday, March 19th, 2010
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Norm Foster Canada’s Most Prolific playwright to speak in Nanaimo March 19th

Norm Foster is Canada's most-produced dramatist, and no wonder. His snappy dialogue, everyday situations and gently balanced characters dare to represent that great, under-represented middle of North American society. - Halifax Daily News

Norm Foster will be in Nanaimo on March 19th to speak and answer questions on his distinguished career as a Canadian playwright, as a fundraiser for TheatreOne. Mr. Foster will talk about his writing process as well as his career journey to becoming a celebrated Canadian playwright. TheatreOne is excited to be able to offer the people of Nanaimo this unique opportunity to meet the playwright before their Spring Mainstage production of Norm Foster’s delightful comedy, Wrong for Each Other, April 21-25 at the VIU Malaspina Theatre. . Bring your questions!

Norm Foster was born in Newmarket, Ontario on St. Valentine's Day. Raised in Toronto he studied Radio & Television Arts at Centennial College in Toronto and then Confederation College in Thunder Bay. Upon completion of his studies, he began a radio career that would span 25 years and which would take him from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg to Kingston and finally to Fredericton, New Brunswick. It was in Fredericton in 1980 that Norm was introduced to the world of theatre.

"A friend of mine was going to audition for a community theatre production of 'Harvey' and he asked me to go along. I went, just for a lark, and I wound up getting the part of Elwood P. Dowd. The funny thing is, I had never even seen a play in my life before this."

Foster fell in love with the theatre right then and there, and two years later he penned his first professionally produced play, Sinners. It was produced by Theatre New Brunswick and directed by Malcolm Black, who would also direct Foster's next effort, the highly successful, The Melville Boys. The Melville Boys would go on to be produced across Canada and in the United States, including a well-received run off-Broadway in New York. It would become Foster's signature play, and the one which would bring his name to the forefront of Canadian theatre. Since then, Norm Foster has produced an astonishing output of work. Nearly forty plays in all, including The Affections of May, the most produced play in Canada in 1991.

Tickets $15.00, 754.7587, www.theatreone.org
Thank you to our sponsors, The Coast Bastion Inn.