Ed Macdonald Email and Phone Number

Known for 22 Minutes, The Jon Dore Television Show, Hatching Matching and Dispatching among others and for the novels Spat The Dummy and Atomic Storybook. Currently, Ed is working on A Christmas Fury with Mary Walsh.Webpage and relevant info can be found athttp://www.edmacdonald.caIn the mid 90's, Macdonald began staff writing on TV shows such as 22 Minutes and many others. Since then, he has written and produced countless hours of television and has won three Gemini Awards for excellence in writing. He has been nominated numerous times. He has won the Writers’ Guild of Canada Award and The Golden Sheaf Award, among others. In 2001, Macdonald's play Gemini opened at the 78th Street Theatre Lab in New York and received great reviews, including a rave from The Village Voice. Gemini was later remounted by NBC in their showcase space, PSNBC. Since then, several of his plays including Mutant Sex Party, The Escape Artist, Erratica and Titus Lucretius Carus have been produced by The Drilling Company. Titus Lucretius Caras was nominated New York Innovative Theatre Award in the category of best script. Ed Macdonald can be seen in episodes of Trailer Park Boys, Hatching Matching and Dispatching, The Bette Show and, briefly, in The Jon Dore Televsion Show where he also served as show runner. Macdonald's first film role was in 1984 opposite Josephine Chaplin in Daniel Petrie's The Bay Boy. His first novel, Spat The Dummy was written in Montreal where Macdonald lived for a decade. Released in 2010, Spat won rave reviews and was was nominated for the QWF First Book Award.Mutant Sex Party and other plays was released in 2012. Most of the plays in the collection were first produced by The Drilling Company in New York.Ed Macdonald's most recent novel is Atomic Storybook. he is currently at work on the movie A Christmas Fury.Ed Macdonald lives in Toronto where he is currently writing the comedy feature Weeper.