Humorist, storyteller, musician, playwright and novelist Lorne Elliott creates and produces stage performances which he tours across Canada and abroad. He hosted the CBC Radio Comedy Series Madly Off In All Directions for 11 seasons. His plays have been produced by various Canadian theatres; the newest, Jamie Rowsell Lives, received the 2012 Playwrights Guild of Canada Musical Play award. His first novel, Beach Reading, was a finalist for the QWF’s 2013 Paragraphe Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction. His latest novel, The Goat in the Tree, was featured at the 2014 Blue Metropolis Festival.
His CEGEP workshop includes readings from his novels and plays and discussion of the writing process for the page and for the stage: the challenges and what informs the two mediums. He welcomes interaction with the students and will engage them in
WEBSITE: lorne-elliott.com