Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Demchuk, David
Playwright and author, born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and presently living and working in Toronto, Ontario.
David Demchuk's plays have been performed at Tarragon Theatre (Rosalie Sings Alone, 1985, directed by Andy McKim); Buddies in Bad Times (If Betty Should Rise, 1985, directed by Robert Scott); Touch, 1986, directed by Audrey Butler; The World We Live On Turns So That The Sun Appears To Rise, 1987, directed by Steve Lucas); and in New York (Stay, Mass Transit Theatre, 1990, directed by Jeff Albright).
He received an honourable mention in the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, for innovation and artistic excellence for Touch. It was included in Making Out (1992), the first anthology of Canadian plays by gay writers, which also featured works by Sky Gilbert and Daniel MacIvor.
By the mid-1990s, Demchuk focused his writing on television and radio scripts for the CBC, where he is currently a communications officer and columnist for "The Next Chapter." In 2017, his collection of integrated horror fairy tales from Eastern Europe, The Bone Mother, was nominated for a Scotiabank Giller Prize. His writing interests are in queerness and monstrosity.
Website: www.daviddemchuk.com
Last updated 2020-06-15
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