Join Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt for a wide ranging conversation hosted by Adam Corrigan Holowitz. This stimulating evening will cover the importance of creating original Canadian plays, grassroots Canadian culture, the art of theatre making and the past, present and future of the Blyth Festival. 

About Gil Garratt
Gil Garratt is a director, playwright, dramaturge, Dora Award-winning actor, and theatre administrator who has worked across Canada and internationally. With a career that has been dedicated primarily to the development of new Canadian plays, Gil has been with the Blyth Festival since 1999.

Gil’s varied and eclectic career as a creator has seen him collaborate with such radical play creation companies as DNA theatre and The Cabaret Company, to such mainstream institutions as The Stratford Festival and The Grand Theatre.

As a performer Gil has literally worked all over the country, including: Theatre NorthWest in Prince George, BC, Centaur Theatre in Montreal, Canadian Stage’s St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto, Shakespeare in High Park, Neptune Theatre in Halifax, the Festival Players of Prince Edward County, Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, to name a few.

Gil is also a member of the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada, several of Gil’s plays have received multiple productions, toured internationally, and been translated into French.

Gil graduated from the National Theatre School’s Playwriting Program in 1998, holds an Honours BA from the University of Waterloo, and an MA from the University of Guelph.

“After thousands of hours, walking thousands of kilometres across and back and across our stage, in the singular Blyth Memorial Hall, this is what I have learned: The work we do is the best, and the reasons we do it are pure.

My time at Blyth has become definitive; both in terms of my perception of my vocation and the reputation that precedes and proceeds the work that I do. I am a Blyth artist regardless of where I work, it has become central to who I am.”​

Live Interview

Wednesday April 9th at 7:30 PM
Free Admission

This event is free and walk-ins are welcome, but if you would like to CLICK HERE to RSVP it will help us get an idea of how many people to expect. 

Location: Manor Park Memorial Hall,
11 Briscoe Street West