David S. Craig Email and Phone Number

David S. Craig is a Toronto based playwright and theatre artist. He has written over thirty dramatic works that have been produced across Canada, the United States and Europe. Recent premieres include “Athabasca” for Convergence Theatre (written with Richard Greenblatt)in January of 2019, “The Neverending Story” (from the novel by Michel Ende) at the Stratford Festival and the National Arts Centre – June 2019-January 2020, “Lysistrata and the Temple of Gaia” at the Odyssey Theatre in 2018 and “BOMBERS: Reaping the Whirlwind” at the 4th Line Theatre in 2017. His one man bouffon show, “Napalm The Magnificent” was performed at festivals and theatres in Canada and Off-Off-Broadway. His work has won Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production three times, the Chalmers New Play Award three times, the Rideau Award for Best Adaptation, The Canada Council Prize, the Writer’s Guild Prize for Radio Drama (for “The First Christmas”) and a Harold. His children’s play “Danny, King of the Basement” has been seen live by over half a million people and was the first Canadian play to be nominated for the German Children’s Theatre Prize. In 2014, The City of Toronto awarded Mr. Craig the Barbara Hamilton Award for Artistic Excellence. He is a former President of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and is married to the award-winning actress, Robin Craig.