George F. Walker

George F. Walker
Born	August 23, 1947 Toronto, Ontario

George F. Walker, CM (born 23 Aug 1947) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. He is one of Canada's most prolific playwrights, and also one of the most widely produced Canadian dramatists both in Canada and internationally.

His screen credits include the television series Due South, The Newsroom, This Is Wonderland and The Line, and the film Niagara Motel. Most of his screen projects are cowritten with Dani Romain.

In 1997, he published a cycle of 6 new plays, all of which took place in the same suburban motel room. In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2009, he received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.^[1]

Contents 1 Plays 2 Works about George F. Walker 3 References 4 External links

Plays

• Prince of Naples (1971)
• Ambush at Tether's End (1971)
• Sacktown Rag (1972)
• Bagdad Saloon (1973)
• Beyond Mozambique (1974)
• Ramona and the Whilte Slaves (1976)
• Gossip (1977)
• Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline (1977)
• Filthy Rich (1979)
• Rumors of Our Death (1980)
• Theatre of the Film Noir (1981)
• Science and Madness (1982)
• The Art of War (1983)
• Criminals in Love (1984)
• Better Living (1986)
• Beautiful City (1987)
• Nothing Sacred (1988)
• Love and Anger (1989)
• Escape from Happiness (1991)
• Tough! (1993)
• Suburban Motel (1997): Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Adult Entertainment, Featuring Loretta, The End of Civilization
• Heaven (2000)

Works about George F. Walker

• Chris Johnson, Essays on George F. Walker: Playing with Anxiety. Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing Inc., 1999
• Craig Walker, "George F. Walker: Postmodern City Comedy," The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

References

External links

• George F. Walker at the Internet Movie Database
• NFB vignette Capturing George, produced for the 2009 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.
• George F. Walker entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

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