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Cloran, Daryl

Artistic Director, and founder of Theatrefront, a Toronto-based independent theatre company. He was born and raised in Sarnia Ontario , and graduated from the Drama Department at Queen’s University, where he has also taught. He studied new media and film directing at the Canadian Film Centre and the New York Film Academy. In 2007 he became AD of Theatre & Company in Kitchener Ontario.

For Theatrefront he has directed: Return (The Sarajevo Project) – presented in Bosnia and Canada, nominated for 5 Dora Awards, published by Playwright’s Canada Press; The Cape Town Project, presented in Canada and South Africa, nominated for 2 Dora Awards; Our Country's Good, nominated for 2 Dora Awards; I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe, produced at the Grand Theatre, London ; Sweet Phoebe, produced at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton.

Daryl Cloran has also directed plays at theatres across the country, including Generous ( Tarragon Theatre ); The Last Five Years ( Canadian Stage , Toronto and Manitoba Theatre Centre , Winnipeg) – nominated for 4 Dora Awards; Afterplay ( Shaw Festival ); This is How it Goes ( Neptune Theatre , Halifax); Helen’s Necklace (Grand Theatre, London); The Play About The Baby ( Soulpepper Theatre Company Toronto).

He has received the Canada Council's John Hirsch Prize for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Director and the Toronto Theatre Emerging Artist Award.

His first feature film is Late Fragment (produced by the National Film Board and Canadian Film Centre), which he co-wrote and directed.

Last updated 2007-01-10