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| Name | Blaine Newton |
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| Location | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Biography | Blaine Newton is an Alberta playwright, sketch writer, actor and improviser. An award-winning playwright with productions across Western Canada and an audience of well under a million people, his recent productions include: The Kyleness of Kyle (Cursive Writing Productions), Bravo (Shadow Theatre), The Thin Grey Line (Cursive Writing Productions), Five Stages of Death (Cursive Writing productions) and Oral Fixations, co-written with author Leslie Greentree (Ignition Theatre). His monologues, short fiction and poetry have been featured on CBC Radio and published in numerous literary anthologies and magazines. When not bragging about himself in the third person, heês a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, a past-president of the Writersê Guild of Alberta, and served two terms as president of Alberta Playwrightsê Network. |
| Publications | Frequent contributor to WGA's Westword magazine. |
| Awards | Writing awards include the University of Manitoba Hirsch Memorial Prize and an Alberta Culture Playwriting Award, and he's a three-time winner in Alberta Theatre Projects Playwrights competition. |
| Memberships | Playwrights Guild of Canada Alberta Playwrights' Network Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta |
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