Playwright of King of Thieves.
George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and widely produced playwrights. He has received nine Chalmers Awards, five Dora Awards and three Governor General’s Awards. He is also the recipient of the Order of Canada. His plays have met with critical and popular success in hundreds of productions worldwide; they have been translated into German, French, Hebrew, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, Mandarin and Japanese. In 1997, Suburban Motel – six plays located in the same motel room – premièred in Canada under Walker’s direction at Factory Theatre in Toronto, and in New York at Rattlestick Productions. Since then individual plays from the series have had numerous productions throughout the U.S.A. and the U.K. and all six plays were presented at the Schaubühne in Berlin starting October 2004 and also received over 20 productions in the rest of Germany during the subsequent year. All six plays were produced in Munich at the Bavarian State Theatre starting in October 2005.
George F. Walker’s play Heaven opened to rave reviews January 2000 at the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto and has since had successful U.S. productions at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and Yale Repertory Theatre Company in New Haven, Connecticut. It has also had various productions in Germany including the Theatre Kammerspiele in Magdeburg, the Theater Schleswig and the Landestheater Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern (LTT), Tuebingen.
In addition to his playwriting, George F. Walker has written extensively for television and radio. Included in his list of credits are Creative Consultant to CBS’s Due South and to Ken Finkleman’s The Newsroom for CBC. Along with writing partner Dani Romain, George F. Walker is also the writer and creator of This is Wonderland for CBC TV, The Line on the Movie Network as well as the feature film Niagara Motel, based on three of the plays from his Suburban Motel cycle.
Most of George F. Walker’s plays have been published, including Heaven, Suburban Motel, Nothing Sacred, Criminals in Love, Zastrozzi, Love and Anger, Better Living and Escape from Happiness.
George F. Walker’s latest play, And So It Goes, premièred at the Factory Theatre in early 2010.