Bruce Directs Tracy

Shot all day at Canoe on the top floor of the TD Centre (my favourite building in Toronto).  An amazing day.  Tracy and Molly were “the pefect girls” as Bruce put it.  The crew is tight and focused.  We shot a twelve minute (!) scene, an homage to “My Dinner With Andre” - actually the first 25 minutes are an homage to that movie.  The whole first act takes place in Canoe.   I was the maitre’de: “A drink while you’re waiting Ma’am”.  Bob Martin was a waiter Tracy tears a strip off.  Fiona was a drunken trophy wife.   Everybody was great.  Everybody’s exhausted but nobody cares.  Tomorrow we shoot on Queen Street all day.  The concert scenes (the centre of the film is a concert)  are  happening at The Mod Club on February 14th in a public benefit organized by Brendan and Sarah from Arts and Crafts.   It’s all happening.  It’s all happening now.

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Daniel MacIvor was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1962. He is a stalwart of the Canadian theatre scene, having written and directed numerous award-winning productions including “See Bob Run”, “Wild Abandon”, “2-2-Tango”, “This Is A Play”, “The Soldier Dreams”, “You Are Here”, “How It Works” and “A Beautiful View”. With long time collaborator Daniel Brooks, he created the solo performances “House”, “Here Lies Henry”, “Monster” and “Cul-de-sac”. Daniel’s play “Never Swim Alone” won the award for overall excellence at the New York Fringe in 1998 and in 2002, he won a GLAAD Award and a Village Voice Obie Award for his play “In On It”, which was presented at PS 122. His play “Marion Bridge” received its off-Broadway premiere in New York in October of 2005. From 1987-2007, with producing partner Sherrie Johnson, he ran da da kamera, a respected international theatre touring company that has brought his work to Australia, Israel, Europe, the UK, and extensively throughout Canada and the US.

As a filmmaker, Daniel’s work includes the festival favorite shorts: “Wake Up Jerk Off”, “Margaret Atwood and the Problem With Canada”, “Permission” and “Until I Hear From You”, all of which he wrote and directed. He wrote and starred in the Genie award-winning short film “The Fairy Who Didn’t Want to be a Fairy Anymore”, co-wrote and starred in “House” (based on his own play and directed by Laurie Lynd) and co-wrote and co-directed “Parade” (with Brad Fraser). Daniel’s first feature film, “Past Perfect”, premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, along with his screenplay adaptation of his play “Marion Bridge” (directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld) which won the CITY TV Best First Feature Award. His second feature film, “Wilby Wonderful” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2004 and went on to screen at festivals around the world, including the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain where it was in competition. Daniel co-wrote and starred in Amnon Buchbinder’s “Whole New Thing” for which Daniel won Best Screenplay and Best Performance by an Actor at the Atlantic Film Festival.

As an actor, Daniel has appeared in his own films, Thom Fitzgerald’s “Beefcake”, Don McKellar’s CBC series “Twitch City”, and Jeremy Podeswa’s film “The Five Senses”, for which he was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor.

In 2006, Daniel received the “Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama” for his collection of plays “I Still Love You”. In 2007, his play “You Are Here” was translated into Japanese and produced in Tokyo and he directed his play “How It Works” in a successful production at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. Also in 2007, his play “His Greatness” was critically lauded in its premiere production at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver.

Currently, Daniel is working on a new play entitled “Communion” for New York based Montsgo Projects and a three woman show called “Was Spring” for Nova Scotia’s Mulgrave Road Theatre. As well, Daniel has a screenplay in development called “Remember Me” and in May of 2008 Daniel will be the inaugural Senior Playwright In Residence at the Playwrights Colony at the Banff Centre.

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