Brian Drader
(? - living) Canada
Stage, screen and radio writer and actor
Former Associate Artistic Director for Prairie Theatre Exchange, Brian Drader is an actor and writer who makes his home in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
As a writer, his plays include The Norbals (winner of the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition in 1997), The Fruit Machine, Tucktuck, Mind of the Iguana Easter Eggs. His play Bubba and the Peter Eater was a Finalist in Theatre BC's Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition in 1996. Upcoming projects include the film version of The Fruit Machine and S*IT, a play for highschool audiences. A short story from his collection The Death of Romance was published in the summer/01 edition of Prairie Fire.
As an actor, he has over 70 professional stage credits and a number of television and film credits, most recently appearing in productions of Dave Carley's Walking On Water and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. In the spring of this year, he appeared in the TheGathering for Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, and he is presently playing Tom in The Glass Menagerie at Prairie Theatre Exchange.
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