Jeffrey Round
| Jeffrey Round | |
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| Born | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Dalhousie University |
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Jeffrey Round is a Canadian writer, director, playwright, publisher, and song writer, who has encouraged the development of LGBT literature, particularly in Canada. His published work includes literary fiction, plays, poetry and mystery novels.
Jeffrey Round studied theatre, literature, psychology and music at Dalhousie University, obtaining a degree in English Literature. He also attended the Humber School for Writers, where he was mentored by writer DM Thomas, as well as Ryerson University's Film and Television program. In 1991, while working as an editor for Pink Triangle Press, he founded The Church-Wellesley Review, Canada's first annual print journal for LGBT creative writing, published as a supplement in Xtra! It later became both a reading series and an on-line quarterly, continuing until 2002. The review featured contributions from such notable writers as Jane Rule, Timothy Findley, Douglas LePan and Shyam Selvadurai, and introduced writers Dale Peck, Michael V Smith and Gordon Stewart Anderson among others.
From 1995-1998, Round directed Agatha Christie’s long-running hit, The Mousetrap, during its twenty-seven record-breaking years at the Toronto Truck Theatre. In 1992 Round founded the multi-media theatre company, Best Boys Productions, with then-partner and gay activist John Davison. His first full-length stage play, Zebra, about the real-life murder of librarian Kenneth Zeller, won the Gay and Lesbian Appeal’s “Right to Privacy Award” and was nominated for a Pink Trillium for Best Play. The pair produced five other stage works, including Dawn Rae Downton's Blessed and Round's The Michael Ridler Project (Is it art or still … life?), about out gay painter Michael Ridler.
In 2002, his short film, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, premiered at the prestigious Director’s View Film Festival in Norwalk, Connecticut. It won awards for Best Canadian Director and Best Use of Music at the Hollywood North Movie Festival, and the Schweppes Prize at what would become the first annual Canadian Film Shorts festival. In 2005, Jeffrey was nominated for the KM Hunter Artists Award for Literature for “a body of work” that included fiction, poetry, drama, and literary criticism.
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