Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

. He has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 400 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

Governor General's Award

The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields. The first was conceived in 1937 by Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor...

 (Writing with our Feet, finalist), The Chalmers Award, The Dora Award, The Arthur Miller Award (University of Michigan) and the New York International Radio Festival Award. He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig

Freddy the Pig

Freddy the Pig is the central figure in a series of 26 books written between 1927 and 1958 by American author Walter R. Brooks, and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Consisting of 25 novels and one poetry collection, they focus on the adventures of a group of animals living on a farm in rural upstate New...

 series of books of Walter Brooks. He was an Editor of The Kawartha Sun, the founding editor of the Playwrights Guild of Canada

Playwrights Guild of Canada

Playwrights Guild of Canada is a non-profit national association of professional and emerging playwrights. It was founded in 1972 as Playwrights Co-op...

 magazine, CanPlay, and also editor of Scirocco Drama.

Beginning in 1990, Carley was the radio drama script editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

, and he continues to write for the CBC. He is currently script editor for the Wendy Lill

Wendy Lill

Wendy Lill is an award-winning Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have been performed extensively in theatres across Canada as well as internationally in such countries as Scotland, Denmark and Germany...

 drama series Backbencher

Backbencher (radio drama)

Backbencher is a Canadian radio drama on CBC Radio One. The series was created by Wendy Lill, and is primarily written by Lill, Ed Thomason and Dave Carley.-Premise:...

, and has written three episodes for the second season, which began broadcast in January 2011.

Carley was born in Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...

, where he attended Queen Alexandra Public School and Adam Scott Collegiate. He received a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Toronto (University College) and an LL.B. from Queen's University

Queen's University

Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

 in Kingston. Dave currently lives in Toronto. He is the brother of Gord Carley, author of Surviving Adversity.

Selected Plays

• Niels Ebbesen
  Niels Ebbesen
  Niels Ebbesen was a Danish squire and national hero, known for his killing of Count Gerhard III.Little is known of Ebbesen's background. He seems to have belonged to the Jutlandish gentry...
  
   (2007) (by Kaj Munk
  Kaj Munk
  Kaj Harald Leininger Munk was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II...
  
  ; new English translation and adaptation, with Arense Lund)
• Kaj Munk
  Kaj Munk
  Kaj Harald Leininger Munk was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II...
  
   (2006)
• Lucky (2006)
• Conservatives in Love (2006)
• The Final Hour (2005) (Written with Glenda MacFarlane)
• The Last Liberal (2004)
• Test Drive (2002)
• Orchidelirium (2001)(Finalist, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play)
• The Edible Woman
  The Edible Woman
  The Edible Woman is a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance. It is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus. Following her engagement, Marian feels her body and her self are becoming...
  
   (2000) (Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood
  Margaret Atwood
  Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
  
  )
• Walking on Water (1999)
• Two Ships Passing (1998)
• A View From The Roof (1996) (Based on stories by Helen Weinzweig) (Finalist, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play; Finalist, Chalmers Award)
• After You (1995) (Premiered as 'Kawartha' at Alberta Theatre Projects)
• Into (1993) and (2006) (Finalist; Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play)
• Taking Liberties (1991) (Fnalist; Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play); (Finalist; Chalmers Award)
• Writing With Our Feet (1990) (Finalist; Governor General's Award for Drama)
• Midnight Madness (1988)
• Hedges (1985)

External links

• http://www.davecarley.com