Sky Gilbert
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Schuyler Lee Gilbert, Jr. (born December 20, 1952) is a Canadian
Canada
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 writer, actor, academic and drag performer
Drag queen
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. Born in Norwich
Norwich, Connecticut
Regular steamship service between New York and Boston helped Norwich to prosper as a shipping center through the early part of the 20th century. During the Civil War, Norwich once again rallied and saw the growth of its textile, armaments, and specialty item manufacturing...

, Connecticut
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, he studied theatre in Toronto, Ontario
Ontario
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 at York University
York University
York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

 and the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

, before becoming co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times
Buddies in Bad Times
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company.Based in Toronto, Ontario and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, Buddies in Bad Times is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical expression"....

, a Toronto
Toronto
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 theatre
Theatre
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 company dedicated to LGBT
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 drama. Gilbert's drag
Drag (clothing)
Drag is used for any clothing carrying symbolic significance but usually referring to the clothing associated with one gender role when worn by a person of another gender. The origin of the term "drag" is unknown, but it may have originated in Polari, a gay street argot in England in the early...

 name is Jane. Sky also teaches a course on Playwrighting at the University of Guelph.

Although primarily a playwright
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, Gilbert has also published novels, poetry and an autobiography
Autobiography
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. He has also been a regular columnist for Toronto's eye weekly
Eye Weekly
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. Many of Gilbert's works are produced at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

Gilbert holds the University Chair in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph
University of Guelph
The University of Guelph, also known as U of G, is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College, the Macdonald Institute, and the Ontario Veterinary College...

. He received his Ph.D.
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 at the University of Toronto.

The Hammertheatre Company, founded in January 2007, is a company devoted to theatre research in Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

 and also devoted to the plays of artistic director Sky Gilbert whose plays will deal with issues of gender and sexuality. The theatre is at the old Ancient Order of Foresters building in the James Street North
James Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
James Street is a Lower City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at the base of the Niagara Escarpment from James Mountain Road, a mountain-access road in the city, originally was a one-way street going south throughout but now has sections of it that are two-way...

 neighbourhood where Hamilton's Art scene continues to blossom. Gilbert has been living in Hamilton since 2004 with his partner, artist Ian Jarvis.

Plays

  • Art Rat (1980)
  • Lana Turner Has Collapsed! (1980)
  • Cavafy (1981)
  • Murder/Lover (1982)
  • Pasolini/Pelosi (1983)
  • The Dressing Gown: a faery tale for adults only (Playwrights Canada Press, 1984, ISBN 0-88754-442-8)
  • The Postman Rings Once: a comedy (Playwrights Canada Press, 1985)
  • Theatrelife: a modern melodrama (Playwrights Canada Press, 1987)
  • Drag Queens in Outer Space: a dreamplay (Playwrights Canada Press, 1990; Second Scene Editions, 2006, ISBN 0887547079)
  • Ban This Show: a play in the form of a dare (Playwrights Union of Canada, 1990, ISBN 1551550407)
  • The whore's revenge : a Victorian melodrama (Playwrights Union of Canada, ISBN 1551555948)
  • Suzie Goo: Private Secretary (1991; Second Scene Editions, 2006, ISBN 0887547095)
  • In Which Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...

     Sees His Own Death in the Face of a Boy (1991)
  • My Night With Tennessee (1992)
  • An Investigation into the Strange Case of the Wildboy: a dream in the form of a document (Playwrights Union of Canada, 1992, ISBN 1551552701)
  • Play Murder (Blizzard Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-921368-49-6)
  • Drag Queens on Trial: a courtroom melodrama (Playwrights Union of Canada, 1994)
  • Hester: An Introduction (1994)
  • More Divine (1994)
  • Jim Dandy (1995)
  • Crater (Playwrights Union of Canada, 1997, ISBN 1-55173-463-X)
  • Ten ruminations on an elegy attributed to William Shakespeare (Playwrights Union of Canada, 1997), ,
  • Schubert Lied (1998)
  • Independence (1998)
  • The emotionalists (Blizzard, 2000, ISBN 1-55331-001-2)
  • Heliogabalus: A Love Story (Cabaret Theatre Company, 2002)
  • Rope Enough (Playwrights Canada Press, ISBN 0-88754-872-5, Buddies 2005)
  • Bad Acting Teachers (Buddies 26 Apr-7 May 2006)
  • Will The Real J.T. LeRoy Please Stand up? (to premiere April 2007, Buddies)
  • The Situationists (Premiered April 2011, Buddies)

Collections

  • This Unknown Flesh: A Collection of Plays by Sky Gilbert (Coach House Press, 1995, ISBN 0-88910-479-4)
  • Painted, tainted, sainted: four plays (Playwrights Canada Press, 1996, ISBN 0-88754-550-5)
  • Avoidance tactics (Broken Jaw Press, 2001, ISBN 1-896647-50-2)
  • Perfectly abnormal: seven gay plays (editor) (Playwrights Canada Press, 2006, ISBN 0887548520)

Novels

  • Guilty (Insomniac Press, 1998, ISBN 1-895837-29-4)
  • St. Stephen's (Insomniac Press, 1999, ISBN 1-895837-70-7)
  • I am Kasper Klotz (ECW Press, 2001, ISBN 1-55022-477-8)
  • An English Gentleman (ReLit Award; novel, Cormorant Books, 2004, ISBN 1-896951-55-4)
  • Brother Dumb (novel, ECW Press, 2006)

Poetry & Other

  • Digressions of a Naked Party Girl (poetry, ECW Press, 1998, ISBN 1-55022-364-X)
  • Temptations for a juvenile delinquent (poetry, ECW Press, 2003, ISBN 1-55022-612-6)
  • A Nice Place To Visit (poetry, ECW Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-55022-893-9)
  • Ejaculations from the Charm Factory: a memoir (autobiography, ECW Press, 2000, ISBN 1-55022-432-8

Films

  • Listen to the City (1984)
  • Film (1992)
  • Kanada (1993)
  • My Addiction (1994)
  • Bubbles Galore (1996)
  • My Summer Vacation (1996)
  • The Blue Hermaphrodite (1996)
  • No Contest II (1997)
  • Too Much Sex
    Too Much Sex
    Too Much Sex is a 2000 Canadian sex comedy film directed by Andrew Ainsworth, produced by the Canadian Film Centre and starring Michael McMurtry, Janet Kidder and Diane Flacks...

    (2000)

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