Michael Lewis MacLennan (June 5, 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 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...

, screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, and producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 of television shows. He is a two-time finalist for Canada's prestigious 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...

, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award twice. His first play, Beat the Sunset, garnered a Jessie Award in Vancouver for outstanding emerging playwright and the Theatrum National Playwriting Competition. Grace

Grace (play)

-Plot:The title character, a cynical atheist science professor, is participating in a psychology experiment in Canada in which the scientists claim to have developed a helmet that can invoke religious experiences. Grace, although skeptical , is mesmerized by the feelings she experiences while using...

won the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition and has been produced across Canada and internationally.

As a screenwriter, MacLennan has been nominated four times for the Writers Guild of Canada

Writers Guild of Canada

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 Award. He began his screenwriting career as writer and story editor for CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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's Wind at My Back

Wind at My Back

Wind at My Back is a television series which aired in Canada on CBC Television between 1996 and 2001. It was created and produced by Kevin Sullivan, best known for his adaptation of Anne of Green Gables and Road to Avonlea...

, then working as writer and executive story editor for the PBS series Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908. Set in 1878, it was written as fiction for readers of all ages, but in recent decades has been considered a children's book...

and supervising producer for the BBC

BBC

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/TV series Super Rubert. MacLennan was a writer and co-producer on Showtime/Showcase's Queer as Folk, and was executive producer for Keatley Productions/CHUM TV's flagship series, Godiva's

Godiva's

Godiva's is an hour long Canadian television comedy-drama series, which debuted on Bravo! and Citytv in 2005. It completed a successful two-season run in 2006, but though the show received rave reviews, it was cancelled by CHUM broadcasting...

.

Plays

• From Playwrights Canada Press
  • Last Romantics (ISBN 0-88754-676-5)
    • Finalist, Governor General's Award for Drama, 2003
    • Winner of the 2001 Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition
    • Commissioned, The Shaw Festival, 2000 & 2001
  • The Shooting Stage (ISBN 0-88754-640-4)
    • Finalist, Governor General's Award for Drama, 2002
    • Winner of the 2002 Banff - Paris Translation Prize
    • Nominated, Best Play, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, Vancouver, 2001
    • Winner of the 1999 Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition
  • Grace
    Grace (play)
    -Plot:The title character, a cynical atheist science professor, is participating in a psychology experiment in Canada in which the scientists claim to have developed a helmet that can invoke religious experiences. Grace, although skeptical , is mesmerized by the feelings she experiences while using...
    
    
    • Winner of the 1996 Canadian National Playwriting Competition
  • Beat the Sunset (ISBN 0-88754-549-1)
    • Winner of the 1993 Outstanding Islander Playwright Award
    • Winner of the 1994 Theatrum Playwriting Award
    • Winner of the 1995 Sidney Risk Award: Jessie Award for Outstanding Emerging Playwright

External links

• Michael MacLennan is the homesite for Mr. MacLennan.
• The Governor's Award and The Canada Council for the Arts
• Playwrights Canada Press
• Showtime's Queer As Folk