Playwright Reading – Robert Chafe

Based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Chafe has written eighteen stage plays and co-authored another eight. He frequently collaborates with director Jillian Keiley, current Artistic Director of English Theatre at Canada’s National Arts Centre. Chafe’s work has been seen across Canada, the UK, Australia and in the United States. In 1998 he was named Emerging Artist of the Year by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council and since then he has won numerous awards. He was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Drama for his two plays, Tempting Providence and Butler’s Marsh in 2004, and won the award for Afterimage in 2010. Tempting Providence, which was directed by Keiley and produced by Theatre Newfoundland Labrador (Corner Brook, Newfoundland), is entering its eleventh year of Canadian and international touring and Chafe is currently working on a film adaptation of the play. An actor as well as a writer, Chafe wrote his 1998 play Charismatic Death Scenes as a solo show which he himself premiered. Some of his other plays have involved experimental and site-specific staging as in the case of Place of First Light, co-authored with Selina Asgar and Sean Panting. Chafe is currently Writer in Residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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