Dave Deveau

<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Dave Deveau investigates queer themes in plays that speak to a broad audience. His work, created vastly through his company Thirty Below Theatre, includes the workshop production of </span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><i>My Funny Valentine </i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">(Toronto's SummerWorks Festival), <i>Tiny Replicas</i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Calibri"> (Neanderthal Arts Festival, Playwright’s Theatre Centre, Calgary's IGNITE! Festival) <i>Courte Forme</i></span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Calibri"> (Théâtre la Seizième), and <i>Nelly Boy</i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri"> (Zee Zee Theatre). He has translated Michel Tremblay’s first play <i>The Train</i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">, and created the internationally screened short film <i>Belly. </i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Calibri">Working in a collective model, he has created <i>Rule of Thumb </i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">and <i>an undershirt</i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">, both noted as NOW Magazine’s Outstanding Ensembles, as well as the more recent <i>Twenty Minute Drag School </i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">with his husband’s alter-ego Isolde N. Barron. Dave has written the libretti for two short operas for Toronto’s Tapestry New Opera Works: <i>Unfamiliar</i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri"> and <i>Rest in Peace</i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">. His epic play <i>Map of the West </i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">was shortlisted in both the Herman Voaden Competition as well as Tarragon Theatre's new Under 30 National Playwriting Competition. He is the 2010 recipient of the Gordon Armstrong Playwrights’ Rent Award. As an actor he is more noted for his work in the TV series <i>Are You Afraid of the Dark? </i></span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">He holds an MFA in Playwriting from UBC. Dave also runs a series of East Vancouver queer charitable events, which led to him being an inaugural inductee into the Royal Order of the Maple Leaf through the Imperial Court System. Upcoming: his play <i>Tiny Replicas </i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Calibri">has just been optioned for the screen, his musical <i>Homecoming King</i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Calibri"> will premiere at the Neanderthal Arts Festival in July, and his latest play <i>Out in the Open</i></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Calibri"> will start touring through Green Thumb Theatre in October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->

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