Ken Garnhum is a Canadian playwright, performance artist and theatrical designer. [1] He is most noted for his performance piece Beuys, Buoys, Boys, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 1989, [2] and his play Pants on Fire, which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1995.
Originally from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, [3] Garnhum worked in art and theatre in Charlottetown before moving to Toronto in 1981. [1] His other plays and performance pieces have included Building a Post-Mortem Birdhouse, [4] How Many Saints Can Sit Around? (1987), [5] Twenty Minute History of Art (1987), [6] Surrounded by Water (1991), [1] The Incredible Red Vase (1991), [7] one word (1997) [4] and The Hermits (1998). [8]
In 1992, Beuys, Buoys, Boys was included in Making Out, the first anthology of Canadian plays by gay writers, alongside works by David Demchuk, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Harry Rintoul and Colin Thomas. [9] Pants on Fire, one of the early AIDS-themed plays in Canadian literature, was the first play Garnhum wrote after himself being diagnosed HIV-positive in 1993. [10]
He has also regularly worked as a set and costume designer, both on his own shows and for other playwrights; [4] he garnered Dora Award nominations for set design in 1994 for a production of The House of Martin Guerre, [11] and for both costume and set design in 1996 for Gloria Montero's Frida K. [12]
Ken Garnhum is a Canadian playwright, performance artist and theatrical designer. [1] He is most noted for his performance piece Beuys, Buoys, Boys, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 1989, [2] and his play Pants on Fire, which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1995.
Originally from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, [3] Garnhum worked in art and theatre in Charlottetown before moving to Toronto in 1981. [1] His other plays and performance pieces have included Building a Post-Mortem Birdhouse, [4] How Many Saints Can Sit Around? (1987), [5] Twenty Minute History of Art (1987), [6] Surrounded by Water (1991), [1] The Incredible Red Vase (1991), [7] one word (1997) [4] and The Hermits (1998). [8]
In 1992, Beuys, Buoys, Boys was included in Making Out, the first anthology of Canadian plays by gay writers, alongside works by David Demchuk, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Harry Rintoul and Colin Thomas. [9] Pants on Fire, one of the early AIDS-themed plays in Canadian literature, was the first play Garnhum wrote after himself being diagnosed HIV-positive in 1993. [10]
He has also regularly worked as a set and costume designer, both on his own shows and for other playwrights; [4] he garnered Dora Award nominations for set design in 1994 for a production of The House of Martin Guerre, [11] and for both costume and set design in 1996 for Gloria Montero's Frida K. [12]