Ken Brand

Ken Brand is a Canadian playwright from Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] One of the significant figures in the emergence of LGBT theatre in Canada in the 1990s,[1] he is most noted for his play The Bathhouse Suite,[2] which appears in the Sky Gilbert-edited anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays alongside plays by Harry Rintoul, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Greg Kearney and Michael Achtman.[3]

His other plays included Benchmarks[1] and Burying Michael.[4]

References

Glenn Sumi, "Gay theatre scores big with its target audience: Canada's homosexual community is large, rich and self-aware -- and playwrights are cashing in on it. Who cares if the critics don't always approve?" The Globe and Mail, March 14, 1998.
Robert Crew, "Love amid the lust in bathhouse". Toronto Star, March 14, 1996.
Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0887548529.
Kate Taylor, "Comedy well buried in bland play". The Globe and Mail, January 20, 2001.

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[sumi-1] Glenn Sumi, "Gay theatre scores big with its target audience: Canada's homosexual community is large, rich and self-aware -- and playwrights are cashing in on it. Who cares if the critics don't always approve?" The Globe and Mail, March 14, 1998.

[2] Robert Crew, "Love amid the lust in bathhouse". Toronto Star, March 14, 1996.

[3] Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0887548529.

[4] Kate Taylor, "Comedy well buried in bland play". The Globe and Mail, January 20, 2001.