Herman Voaden
| Herman Arthur Voaden | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 19, 1903 London, Ontario |
| Died | June 27, 1991 (aged 88) Toronto, Ontario |
| Genre | playwright |
| Notable awards | Order of Canada |
Herman Arthur Voaden, CM (19 January 1903 – 27 June 1991) was a Canadian playwright.
Born in London, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1923 and a Master of Arts degree in 1926 from Queen's University. He also studied at the University of Chicago and at Yale University.
His father, Dr. Arthur Voaden, pioneered vocational teaching in Ontario. His mother, Luisa Bale Voaden, was also a teacher. Voaden studied modern drama at Queen’s University, 1920–1923, and wrote his 1926 Queen’s M.A. thesis on Eugene O’Neill.
A member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, he ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the western Toronto riding of Trinity in the 1945 elections, 1949 elections, 1953 elections, and a 1954 by-election. He lost each time.
Voaden was a member of Toronto's Arts and Letters Club, the Dominion Drama Festival, and a founding member and first president of the Canadian Arts Council (which became the Canadian Conference of the Arts in 1958). As president of the CAC, he was one of several Canadian representatives to the first UNESCO conference, held in Paris in 1946.
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