Dave Carley

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Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright. He has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 300 productions, and have been produced across Canada and the United States, and in other countries. His plays have won, or been nominated for, a number of awards, including the Governor General's Award (Writing with our Feet, finalist). He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig series of books of Walter Brooks. He was also founding editor of the Playwright Guild of Canada's magazine, CanPlay. For a number of years, Dave was the radio drama script editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and was also the editor of Scirocco Drama. Dave Carley was born in Peterborough, Ontario and currently lives in Toronto. He is the brother of Gord Carley, author of Surviving Adversity.

[edit] Selected Plays

Niels Ebbesen (2007) (by Kaj Munk; new English translation and adaptation, with Arense Lund)
Kaj Munk (2006)
Lucky (2006)
Conservatives in Love (2006)
The Final Hour (2005) (Written with Glenda MacFarlane)
The Last Liberal (2004)
Test Drive (2002)
Orchidelirium (2001)
The Edible Woman (2000) (Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood)
Walking on Water (1999)
Two Ships Passing (1998)
A View From The Roof (1996) (Based on stories by Helen Weinzweig)
After You (1995)
Into (1993) and (2006)
Taking Liberties (1991)
Writing With Our Feet (1990)
Midnight Madness (1988)