Jason Sherman - Biography

Jason Sherman (born 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.

After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produced what, a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990. Before establishing himself as a dramatist, Sherman's journalistic works such as reviews, essays, and interviews appeared in various publications, including The Globe and Mail, Canadian Theatre Review and Theatrum.

He edited two anthologies for Coach House Press, Canadian Brash (1991) and Solo (1993), and has been a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre since 1992.

Sherman's first professional productions were A Place Like Pamela (1991) and To Cry is Not So (1991), followed by The League of Nathans (1992, published in book form in 1996), which won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1993), and was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English language drama. Since then, Sherman has produced a series of plays, and has written for television and radio, including the CBC Radio series Afghanada and the television adaptation of Vincent Lam's Giller Prize-winning story collection Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures.

In the November 2007 issue of This Magazine, Sherman wrote an article revealing that he was giving up his theatre work to concentrate on screenwriting, after his theatre royalties for the entire previous year produced an income of just $791.91.

Works

• A Place Like Pamela (1991)
• To Cry is Not So (1991)
• The League of Nathans (1992)
• What the Russians Say (1993)
• Field (1993)
• The Merchant of Showboat (1993)
• Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1994)
• Reading Hebron (1995)
• The Retreat (1996)
• None is Too Many (1997)
• Patience (1998)
• It's All True (1999)
• An Acre of Time (1999/2000)
• Afghanada (2006)
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2010)

External links

• Jason Sherman