Allan Novak

Allan Novak is a Canadian television director and editor.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Novak moved to Toronto at age 20 and earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in film and television at York University. He lives in Toronto.

Novak and Toronto comedian Bruce Bell created a one-hour television movie called The Rise and Fall of Tony Trouble, which screened at the 1984 Toronto International Film Festival and was broadcast on Group W Cable in Manhattan. It has been described as a "cult classic."

While working as a producer/editor for First Choice, Novak produced a series of comedy videos with voice actor Ron Rubin. They won awards at the Video Culture International New Media Festival in 1985 and 1986. Novak was described by the Toronto Star as one of "the world of entertainment's newest crop of movers and shakers."

He produced comedy videos in the mid-1980s for Toronto’s The Second City.

Novak worked on the 1985 Genie Award telecast as a writer, and was nominated for the 1986 Gemini Awards. He began directing a children's music video and comedy series called Vid Kids for M&M Productions in 1986 and then The Elephant Show for Cambium Productions. He later directed episodes for Breakthrough Films & Television's The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon, Arts and Youth for TVOntario, OWL/TV for CTV, and Dealing with Drugs and Mission Reading, both for TVOntario.

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