Ken Brand

Ken Brand is a Canadian playwright from Winnipeg, Manitoba. One of the significant figures in the emergence of LGBTQ theatre in Canada in the 1990s, he is most noted for his play The Bathhouse Suite, which appears in the Sky Gilbert-edited anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays alongside plays by Harry Rintoul, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Greg Kearney and Michael Achtman.

His other plays include Benchmarks and Burying Michael.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sumi, Glenn (March 14, 1998). "Gay theatre scores big with its target audience: Canada's homosexual community is large, rich and self-aware—and playwrights are cashing in on it. Who cares if the critics don't always approve?". The Globe and Mail.
  2. ↑ Crew, Robert (March 14, 1996). "Love amid the lust in bathhouse". Toronto Star.
  3. ↑ Gilbert, Sky, ed. (2006). Perfectly abnormal: seven gay plays (1st ed.). Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press. ISBN 978-0-88754-852-9.
  4. ↑ Taylor, Kate (January 20, 2001). "Comedy well buried in bland play". The Globe and Mail.