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Jim Burke is well-known to Montreal culture-vultures as the theatre and dance correspondent for the Montreal Gazette, a position he held from 2015 to 2022. He is also an award-winning playwright, both for his sea-going adaptation of Moby-Dick (it was originally performed on a theatre-ship) and his original play Cornered, both of which were performed in the UK and in Montreal. His play Bestiary, about “three famous animals and their famous last words,” was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003, and was recently recorded with music performed by the Orchestra of Drummondville, and with one of the animals voiced by Yellowjackets star Sophie Nélisse.

Other scripts include Silt (BBC Radio 4), Arise (Rocket Theatre Company, UK), three episodes of the BBC soap Doctors and a young people’s opera based on the comic stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Opéra Voxpopuli, Montreal). His adaptation of Dostoyvesky’s Notes From Underground was used by director Paul Van Dyck for a workshop at the Shaw Festival.

Jim has taught Creative Writing in Dawson’s Continuing Education department since 2011, and has taught and held workshops on playwriting, criticism and film theory at many UK institutions, including colleges, universities and arts centres.

As an arts and lifestyle journalist, he has written for many publications, both in Montreal and the UK.

• Adaption Workshop: Jim offers a workshop on adapting literary texts (novels, short stories) for theatre, screen, radio, or what you will. Using short extracts and video clips from his own radical adaptations, as well as those of other writers, the workshop would aim to expand the students’ imagination in terms of what is possible in the art of adaptation. A major part of the workshop would be to have the students work on adapting a text, or part of a text, that is on their curriculum.

Other proposed workshops might include:

• Feature Writing and Criticism – In-Print and On-Line: The workshop would partly be geared towards texts that are on the curriculum: for instance, writing reviews/features on those texts with specific publications in mind – and perhaps writing an imagined interview feature with a fictional character from those texts.
• How to write/identify a well-made-play…and how to break the rules of a well-made-play: This would be particularly useful if a theatre play were on the curriculum. The workshop would also encourage students to familiarize themselves with playwriting techniques by getting them to create their own dramatic pieces.