Award-Winning Playwright, Screenwriter, Teacher, and Adjudicator.
Author of the new book Two Ways About It: The Inside and Outside of Playwriting
John Lazarus has written more than 50 produced full-length and short plays. In the 1990s, he founded the playwriting program at Vancouver’s Studio 58, and then went on to teach drama full-time at Queen’s University. He has also taught at the National Theatre School and the Vancouver Film School. Two Ways About It is his book on the art of playwriting.
This month I turn 77. Like other old people, I have begun to labour under the delusion that younger people might give a hoot about what I have to say about being old. So I’ll tell you. Also, like other old people, I ramble sometimes, so I’ll put these random observations in separate chapters.