Gordon McCall
WRITING RESUME
Member
a) Canadian Actors’ Equity Assoc. (EQUITY)
b) Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)
WRITING FOR PROFESSIONAL THEATRE
PLAYS
1/ THE SILVER SCREEN
Centaur Theatre Company
Fundraising show
2002
2/ FINBARRS’S FINAL FLING
Centaur Theatre Company
Fundraising show
1999
3/ THE SUNSET DRIVE-IN
Drama
(In Progress)
4/ RUNNING ON FROZEN AIR
Drama
ONTARIO PREMIERE
Sudbury Theatre Centre
Jan. 1996
WORLD PREMIERE
Nakai Theatre Ensemble
Whitehorse, Yukon
Jan. 1994
5/ NHLPA 4 ON 4 CHALLENGE
(Professional Charity Hockey Game
during 1994 hockey season lockout)
OPENING CEREMONIES
& Producer of the game with, STC,
Brian Savage of the Montreal Canadiens,
and the NHLPA.
Sudbury Arena
Dec. 7, 1994
(Writer/Producer)
6/ ONE GREEN LEAF
Co-Writer
Original Drama
WORLD PREMIERE
Science North Centre
Sudbury, Ontario
July 1993 - Sept. 1993
7/ CATCH THE SHOOTING STARS
(Production Number)
OPENING CEREMONIES
1991 World Junior Hockey Championships
Saskatchewan Place
Saskatoon, Sask.
1991
(Writer/Producer)
8/ WARNING SIGNS
Political Satire
Cosmo Club Convention
1990
(Co-Writer)
9/ SASKATOON, THE UNIVERSE, AND YOU, TWO!
Political Satire
Sherbrooke Community Centre
Saskatoon
1990
(Co-writer)
10/ SASKATOON, THE UNIVERSE, AND YOU
Political Satire
Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce
1989
(Co-writer)
11/ MURDER MYSTERY WEEKEND
Co-production with Sheraton Cavalier Hotel, Saskatoon
1986
(Team Writer)
12/ MYSTERY EVENINGS
Prepared for Convention shows throughout Saskatchewan
1986-1989
(Team Writer)
13/ WALK OF AGES
Saskatoon's 100 Year Centennial Heritage Project
1985
(Head Writer and Producer)
14/ THE SASKATOON SOAPS
Nightcap Productions, Saskatoon
1984-90
(Writer/Performer)
*Weekly improvised situation comedy - writer of intros, updates, and some weekly episode "set-ups".
15/ THE CRANBERRY FLATS TRAVELLING MEDICINE SHOW
Twenty-Fifth Street Theatre, Saskatoon
1984
(Team Writer)
16/ THE PROMISED LAND
Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg
1982
(Playwright)
17/ THE SNOW QUEEN
adaptation from Hans Christian Andersen
Gordon McCall and Robb Paterson
17/ FROM SAIGON TO SUDBURY
Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre Lifeline
1980
(Collective)
18/ CHIPS AND DIP AND COLD BIG MACS
Children's Theatre
Toronto, Ont.
(Co-authored with R. Paterson)
19/ THE THREE CUCKOLDS
UBC Summerstock, Vancouver & Centre Stage, London, Ont.
1978
(Adaptation)
20/ THE CRAB
Touchstone Theatre Co.
Children's Theatre -1975 (Writer)
TELEVISION
1/ THE POND – treatment for a short film for Hockey Night In Canada (Optioned – 2003)
2/ OVERTIME – treatment for a short film for Hockey night In Canada (Optioned – 2003)
1/ RUNNING ON FROZEN AIR
(The Making of a New Canadian Play)
A ½ hour documentary
Writer, director, assistant editor
NEEDA Television
Yukon - June 1994
2/ ONE GREEN LEAF
Original half hour television drama
MCTV - Sudbury
Co-Writer with David Lickley
Jan. 1994
3/ PRAIRIE CONFIDENTIAL
2 original half hour television comedy specials for The (CTV) Saskatchewan Television Network and CFQC-TV, Saskatoon.
1987
(Head Writer, Producer and Performer)
4/ TIGER MOTH
1/2 hour TV Drama - produced by CBC TV, Regina.
1985
(Writer)
5/ THE FREEDOM DIARY OF LAN TRAN
1/2 hour TV Drama - produced by CBC TV, Winnipeg, 1983.
(Writer)* Nominated for ACTRA Award: Best Writer - TV Drama, 1984.
** Screenplay was produced twice - one English production and one French production.
6/ BACK ON THE HORSE
1/2 hour TV Drama
Optioned by CBC TV, Vancouver
1989
(Writer)
BOOKS - NON-FICTION
a) OFF THE MAIN
Tales of a Centaur Theatre Company Artistic Director 1997-2007
(To be published by Vehicule Press, Montreal)
b) LUNATICS, LOVERS AND OTHER POETS
The Birth of The Shakespeare On The Saskatchewan Festival
(1984-1991)
(Historical non-fiction – to be published by Scirocco Books)
c) SHOVELS AND CLOUDS: Survival Tools For Stage Directors (In-progress)
ARTICLES PUBLISHED
a) CURTAIN CALL - Monthly column-professional theatre feature article columnist – Movie Entertainment Feature magazine – national circulation – ongoing - March 2005 to March 2009
b) A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Melbourne & Sydney) – travel article The Montreal Gazette.
The Montreal Gazette
Montreal, Quebec
To Be Published December 2005
c) UP CLOSE WITH LAND DOWN UNDER – a diary article of my experience directing “Cheech”
at The Melbourne Theatre Company
The Montreal Gazette
Montreal, Quebec
Published, August 2, 2005
d) TOKYO TIME (travel article for The Montreal Gazette and Edmonton Journal newspapers)
The Montreal Gazette The Edmonton Journal
Montreal, Quebec Edmonton, Alberta
Published December 2003 & January 2004
e) HEAVENLY PLAY - ANGELS IN AMERICA – FEATURE Entertainment Magazine
Volume 14, Number 9
Montreal, Quebec
Feb. 2004
f) A DUBLIN DIARY
The Montreal Gazette
Montreal, Quebec
February 16, 2002
g) ON THE HIGHWIRE WITHOUT A NET
Weekly Newspaper Column About Professional Theatre In Canada
The Sudbury Star, Sudbury, Ont.
1996
h) TOUCHSTONE AT TWENTY
Personal history article for
20TH Anniversary Commemorative Edition
Touchstone Theatre Company
Vancouver, B.C.
September 1995
i) MEMORABLE MOMENTS: Memorable Audition Moments From Canadian Directors.
Anthology
Playwrights Union of Canada Press
Toronto, 1995.
j)DISCURSIVE EVOLUTIONS by Alan Filewood
CTR 79/80
Anniversary Double Issue
Fall 1994
(Quote from CTR 42 article - Twenty-Fifth Street Blues)
Also listed in author index for articles published in the first twenty years of CTR.
k)"TORONTO DEBUT 'A GREAT ADVENTURE'"
"OTTAWA OPENING OF BILINGUAL PRODUCTION TIMELY"
"TROUPE OVERCOMES MAJOR OBSTACLES IN STRATFORD DEBUT"
Three newspaper articles published in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix Newspaper - 1990
l)TWO SOLITUDES: A BILINGUAL ROMEO & JULIETTE
Canadian Theatre Review 62
June 1990
m)TWENTY-FIFTH STREET BLUES: On The Highwire Without A Net
Canadian Theatre Review 42
March, 1985
n)REFLECTIONS ON NEW YORK 1984
The Saskatoon Star Phoenix
December, 1984
o)THE BOARD: The Thrill of Victory and The Agony of Defeat
Canadian Theatre Review 40
October, 1984
OTHER
TALK THE TALK
Original short story
August 1995
FAT JERRY
Original short story
March 1993
DOGEYES
Original Short Story
February 1990
BACK ON THE HORSE
Original Short Story
Nov. 1989
MR. BIG
Original Short Story
Sept. 1989