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Name: KEITH GAREBIAN Education: M.A. (Thesis: “The Significance of Extravagance, Mediocrity, and Fire in Hamlet”) (Sir George Williams University), 1971 Ph. D. (Thesis: “ ‘The Spirit of Place’ in R.K. Narayan and V.S. Naipaul”) (Queen’s University), 1973 Experience: Discussion
Leader and Lecturer, Thomas More Institute, 1969–70; Guest Lecturer, Thomas More Institute, 1981; 1987 (Modern Theatre; Clark Blaise, R.K. Narayan, and V.S. Naipaul) Language Test Consultant, Department of Education, Quebec, 1973–74; 1974–75 Assistant Professor, McGill University, Summer 1974 (Canadian and Commonwealth Literature) Instructor, Concordia University, 1975–76; Summer 1976; 1976–77; 1981 (Canadian and Commonwealth Literature; Modern Culture and Criticism) Instructor, Dawson College, 1976; Summer 1977 (Commonwealth Literature) Instructor, Humber College, 1983 (Communications) Instructor, Centennial College, 1987–88 (Communications) Instructor, Trent University, 1990–91; 1995 (Modern Drama; Canadian Prose; Modern Irish Drama) Judge for the English entries in the annual Grand Prix de la Ville de Montreal, 1978 Member, Toronto Drama Bench, 1979–88 Board of Directors, Canadian Theatre Critics Association, 1981 Co‑Organizer of the Fall Conference, CTCA, Montreal, 1982 Script reader/assessor for Marion Andre, Theatre Plus 1983–84; Toronto Free Theatre, 1983 Critic-at-Large, Mississauga Library System, 2000–03, author of Off The Shelf (book reviews) and Spotlight (theatre reviews), www.city.mississauga.on.ca/library Critic of theatre, dance, opera, and books at www.stageandpage.com, 2003– Judge, Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest, 2004 Judge, Dan Sullivan Memorial Award, Durham Valley Writers’ Group Poetry Contest, 2005 Judge, Free Verse Category, Ontario Poetry Society Poetry Contest, 2005 Consulting biographer, Norflicks/CBC film biography of William Hutt (Joel Gordon, Producer/Director), 2005 Second Round Judge, Postcard Story Competition, The Writers’ Union of Canada, 2006 Judge (with Aritha van Herk and Su Croll), City of Edmonton Book Award, 2010 Awards/Honours: Runner‑up, Nathan Cohen Award for Outstanding Theatre Criticism in Canada, 1982 (Judge: Ronald Bryden) Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant, 1983‑85, 1987–88, 1990, 1992–96, 2005, 2008 CUEW Research Grant, Trent University, 1990–91; 1995 Mississauga Arts Award, Established Literary, 2000 Honourable Mention, Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest, 2001. “To An Oriental Lover.” (Judge: Robert Priest) First Runner‑up, Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest, 2002. “Venice Beach (2).” (Judge: Margaret Christakos) First Prize for free verse, The Ontario Poetry Society Annual Contest, 2002. “Ezra Pound.” (Judge: Joan McGuire) Runner-up, RSVP Poetry Contest, Outlooks, 2003. “Photograph Of The Future.” (Judges: John Barton, Norm Sacuta, and Nancy Jo Cullen) Top Prize, Lakeshore Arts & Scarborough Arts Council, Windows on Words Poetry Contest, 2003. “Photograph Of The Future.” (Judge: Barry Dempster) Honourable Mention, Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest, Windows on Words, 2003. “Ezra Pound.” (Judge: Barry Dempster) First Prize, Haiku, Ontario Poetry Society, 2003. “Yemen at noon.” (Judge: Peggy Fletcher) Second Prize, Queen’s Alumni Review, Well-Versed Poetry Contest, 2004 “Scarecrow.” (Judges: David Helwig, Cyril Dabydeen, Heather Grace Stewart) Fourth Prize, Ontario Poetry Society Contest, 2005 “Japanese Garden.” (Judge: Kate Marshall Flaherty) Longlisted, 2005 ReLit Award for Poetry (Frida: Paint Me As A Volcano) Honourable Mention, Scarborough Arts Council, Full Circle Poetry Contest, 2006 “Flowering Perennial.” (Judge: Dwayne Morgan) Third Prize, Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest, 2006 “Elegy For Derek Jarman.” Finalist, Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest, 2007 “Family Viewing.” (Judges: Maureen Hynes, Phil Hall, a. rawlings) Second Prize, Queen’s Alumni Review, Well-Versed Poetry Contest, 2008 “Family Viewing.” (Judges: Cyril Dabydeen, Heather Grace Stewart, Carolyn Smart) Mississauga Arts Award (Established Literary) 2008 Honourable Mention, Ascent Aspirations Magazine Erotica Issue, Anthology Six (Fall 2008). “Dracula Shares His Secret.” First Prize, CAA (Niagara Branch) Poetry Contest, 2009. “Dikranagerd.” (Judge: Cornelia Hoogland) Naji Naaman Literary Honour Prize (Lebanon), 2009 Poem of the Month (November), selected by Parliamentary Poet Laureate (“Elegy for William Saroyan”) Works In Progress Grant, Ontario Arts Council, 2008 A winner in the 2010 Dektet Series Poetry Contest, Frontenac House, Calgary. (Jurors: George Elliott Clarke, bill bissett, Alice Major) Long-listed, Re-Lit Award for Poetry (Children of Ararat), 2011 Ontario Arts Council Works In Progress Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve Grant, 2011 Cited in Contemporary Authors, Vol. 29 Cited in the International Who’s Who of Writers, 1991. Cited in Canadian Who’s Who, 1991–current Public Readings: Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, 2001 Mississauga Public Library, 2001; 2002 Hamazkayin Cultural Centre, Scarborough, 2001 The Idler Pub, 2001 The Ontario Poetry Society, Victory Café, 2002 Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, April 15, 2003 Dora Keogh Pub, Exile editions, October 14, 2003 Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, April 13, 2004 Scarborough Arts Council, April 26, 2004 Art Bar reading, Victory Café, July 13, 2004 Writers Workshop, University of Toronto at Mississauga, November 1, 2004 Victory Café, Launch of Frida: Paint Me As A Volcano, November 4, 2004 Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, Launch of Witness: Anthology of Poetry, November 7, 2004 Ryerson Live Poets Society, November 16, 2004 Oakville Poetry Café, Oakville Central Library, November 20, 2005 Art Bar Series, Victory Café, August 8, 2006 Presentation of Frida Kahlo poems for Word Stage, Cervejaria Restaurant, Toronto, September 14, 2006 Presented by Jennifer Dale St. Catharines Public Library, CAA (Niagara Branch), October 13, 2007 Poetry performance for “We Are What We Have Been Waiting For” fund-raiser for PWA and Buddies In Bad Times Theatre at the Museum for New New Painting, October 15, 2007 Featured reader, St. Catharines Public Library, April 23, 2008 Reading at Launch for Blue, Theatrebooks, Toronto, April 30, 2008 Featured reader, Art Bar Series, Toronto, May 6, 2008 Featured reader, Streetsville Arts Festival, May 24, 2008 Featured reader, IV Lounge, Toronto, June 20, 2008 Book Signing and reading, Mississauga Book Fair, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, September 7, 2008 Featured reader, LitLive, Hamilton, September 7, 2008 Featured reader, Proust and Company, Toronto, April 4, 2009 Reading at Mississauga Book Fair, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, September 13, 2009 Armenian Community Centre, Hallcrown Place, March 21, 2010 Stanley A, Milner Library Theatre, Edmonton, April 27, 2010 Calgary International Spoken Word Festival, John Dutton Theatre, Calgary, April 28-29, 2010 Amnesty International Fund Raiser, Streetsville, May 9, 2010 Proust and Company, Glad Day Books, Toronto, June 12, 2010 Art Bar Series, Clinton’s, Toronto, June 22, 2010 Hot Sauced Words, Black Swan Tavern, Toronto, September 16, 2010 Dektet Toronto Launch, Revival, Toronto, September 22, 2010 Oakville Poetry Café, Moonshine Café, Oakville, October 17, 2010 LitLive, Sky Dragon Centre, Hamilton, November 7, 2010
Public
Addresses: “Letters To Bless The Eyes.” Hamazkayin Cultural Interviews
Centre, Scarborough, February 23, 2003 Radio
Broadcast: “Aural Tapestry.” Chris Chambers
with Keith Garebian and Peter Jelavich on German Cabaret and The Making of
‘Cabaret.’ Radio Netherlands, June 18, 2002
Publications: Hugh Hood. Boston: Twayne, 1983. Hugh Hood and His Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1985. William Hutt: A Theatre Portrait. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1988. Leon Rooke and His Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1989. A Well-Bred Muse: Selected Theatre Writings 1978–1988. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1991. George Bernard Shaw and Christopher Newton: Explorations of Shavian Theatre. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1993. The Making of ‘My Fair Lady’.
Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. The Making of ‘Gypsy’. Toronto:
ECW Press, 1994. The Making of ‘West Side Story’.
Toronto: ECW Press, 1995. The Making of ‘Cabaret’. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1999. Second printing, 2004. Rights sold to Firefly Book Club, Doubleday Book Club, Reynolds & Hearn Pain: Journeys Around My Parents. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 2000. The Making of ‘Guys and Dolls’. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 2002. Second printing, 2004. Rights sold to Firefly Book Club, Doubleday Book Club, Reynolds & Hearn. Reservoir of Ancestors. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 2003. Samson’s Hair and other Satiric Fantasies. Toronto: Micro Prose, 2004. Frida: Paint Me As A Volcano/Frida: Un Volcan de Souffrance. Ottawa: Buschek Books, 2004. Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems. Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2008. Children of Ararat. Calgary: Frontenac House, 2010. The Making of ‘Cabaret’ (New Revised Edition), New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 William Hutt: A Biography, Toronto: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
(Editor) William Hutt: Masks and Faces. Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1995. Parts of Books: The Question As Commitment: A Symposium. Thomas More Institute Papers/77 Montreal: Perry Printing, 1979. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1983. The Montreal Storytellers. ed. J.R. (Tim) Struthers Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1985. Beacham’s Popular Fiction in America. ed. Walton Beacham Washington, D.C.: Beacham Publishing, 1986. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers Since 1960. (First Series), ed. W.H. New. Detroit, Michigan: Gale, 1986. The Bumper Book. ed. John Metcalf. Toronto: ECW Press, 1986. Popular World Fiction 1900‑Present. ed. W. Beacham and S. Niemeyer. Carry On Bumping. ed. John Metcalf. Toronto: ECW Press, 1988. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre. ed. E. Benson and L. Conolly. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989. Magill’s Masterplots II: Drama. California: Salem Press, 1990. Magill’s Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction. California: Salem Press, 1991. Das englisch-kanadische Drama. ed. Albert Reiner Glaap Dusseldorf: Schwann, 1992. Raging Like A Fire: A Celebration of Irving Layton. ed. Henry Beissel and Joy Bennett Montreal: Vehicule, 1993. Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture. California: Salem Press, 1993. (Fokine’s Les Sylphides) On-Stage and Off-Stage: English Canadian Drama in Discourse. ed. Albert Reiner Glaap with Rolf Althof. St. John’s, NF: Breakwater, 1996. Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. California: Salem Press, 1998. (The Long Walk Home) Magill’s Encyclopedia of Propaganda. California: Salem Press, 1998. (John Buchan) Ready Reference: Family Life. California: Salem Press, 1998 (Male circumcision; Jerome Bruner; Arnold L. Gesell) Biographical Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Leaders. California: Salem Press, 1999. (Robert Laird Borden; Jeanne Sauve; Joseph R. Smallwood; W.A.C. Bennett; Vincent Massey; Mahatma Gandhi) Magill’s Medical Guide: Pediatrics. California: Salem Press,1999. (Frostbite; Masturbation; Testicular Torsion; Warts; Strawberry Hemangiomas) Racial and Ethnic Relations in America. California: Salem Press, 1999 (Vietnamese Canadians; Refugees: Canadian Policy; African Canadians; Arab Canadians; Racial and Ethnic Jokes and Humor) The Sixties in America. California: Salem Press, 1999 (The French Connection; John Cheever; Jane Fonda) Encarta Yearbook, 1998, 1999. Article on Broadway. Encyclopedia of World Geography. California: Salem Press, 2000. (Gazetteer of Southeast Asia) Critical Survey of Long Fiction. California: Salem Press, 2000. (Gay and Lesbian Long Fiction) World Philosophers and their Works. California: Salem Press, 2000. (An Autobiography (Gandhi), Barthes’ Mythologies; Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison) Magill’s Guide to Military History. California: Salem Press, 2000. (Rajput Rebellion; Guam, 1944; Panipat, 1399) Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. California: Salem Press, 2001. (Lucius Apuleius; Chandragupta Maurya; Croesus; Tigranes the Great of Armenia) Magill’s Guide to Military History. California: Salem Press, 2001. (Akbar; Chandragupta Maurya; Edward I; Edward, the Black Prince; Henry V; Louis-Joseph de Montcalm; Henri-Philippe Petain; Pyrrhus; Tigranes the Great; Charles George Gordon; Vimy Ridge) Magill’s Encyclopedia of Science: Animal Life. California: Salem Press, 2001. (Cheetahs) Great Events of the Twentieth Century. California: Salem Press, 2001. (Adrienne Clarkson Becomes Governor-General) Nobel Prize Winners. California: Salem Press, 2002. (Derek Walcott) “Introduction” to Inuk (a play) by Henry Beissel. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2001. Masterplots II: Poetry Series, Rev. ed. California: SalemPress, 2002. (Audrey Lorde’s “Rooming Houses Are Old Women”) Cyclopedia of Literary Places. California: Salem Press, 2002.(Henry IV, Part I; Measure for Measure; Merchant of Venice; Patience; Private Lives; “Tevye the Dairyman”; Twelfth Night; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Henry VIII; King John; The Lady’s Not For Burning; The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Mid-summer Night’s Dream; Timon of Athens) Critical Survey of Drama: 2nd Rev. ed. California: Salem Press, 2003. (Charles Ludlam; Yasmina Reza) Rocks and Rhythm (An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Poetry), ed. Lenny Everson. Toronto: Beret Days Book, 2003. (“Blue is a Hole” and “Prospero”) Cherish Our Heritage (Recueil bilingue de poesie). ed. Katherine L. Gordon. London, On: HMS Press, 2004. (“The Lake”) Witness: Anthology of Poetry. ed. John B. Lee. Mississauga, Serengeti Press, 2004. (“Revelations”; “Madness and Thirst”) The Seventies in America. California: Salem Press, 2005. Literature in Canada; Jaws (film); Mon Oncle Antoine And no one knows the blood we share (Poems from the Feminist Caucus), ed. Katerina Fretwell (Living Archives of the Feminist Caucus, League of Canadian Poets, 2005) (“Eve”) Great Lives From History: The Nineteenth Century, 18011900. California: Salem Press, 2006. (Susanna Moodie) Great Events From History: The Nineteenth Century, 18011900. California: Salem Press, 2006. (1894‑1897: Armenian Massacres) Love The Main Course. Thornhill, ON: Beret Day Press, 2005. (“Cabanel’s ‘The Birth of Venus’ ”; “Dracula Shares His Secret”) Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets, ed. John Barton and Billeh Nickerson. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007. (“Sapphic Interlude,” “The Life of Art in Thievery,” “Untitled Sound Poem”) Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She (Poems from the Feminist Caucus), ed. Katerina Fretwell (League of Canadian Poets, 2007) (“Cabanel’s ‘The Birth of Venus’”) The Saving Bannister (Niagara Poetry Anthology, Vol. 22) (“Thaya Whitten’s Red Horse”) Garden Variety (An anthology of flower poems), ed. Lily Contento. (Thornhill, On: Quattro Books, 2007) (“Orchids”) Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1941–1970, Robert F. Gorman. California: Salem Press, 2007. (On The Waterfront Wins Best Picture; Saroyan’s The Human Comedy) Ascent Aspirations, Anthology Seven (Spring 2009). (“Teotihuacan”) Naji Naaman’s literary prizes 2009.
Maison naaman pour la culture (Lebanon). (“Death in Five Segments,” “Teotihuacan,”
“The Last Queen of Hawaii”) Academic Articles: “Strategy And Theme in The Art of R.K. Narayan,” Ariel, Vol. 5, No. 4, October 1974, 70–81. “Desire as Art: Leonard Cohen's The Favourite Game," Le Chien D'Or/The Golden Dog, No. 4 (November 1974), 29-34. “V.S. Naipaul’s Negative Sense of Place,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. X, No.1 (August 1975), 23–35. “The Real Course of Life: The Novels of John Buell,” Canadian Literature, No. 67 (Winter 1976), 74–84. “’The Spirit of Place’ in R.K. Narayan,” World Literature Written in English, Vol. 14, No.2 (November 1975), 291–299. “Narayan’s Compromise In Comedy,” The Literary Half-Yearly, Vol. XVII, No.1 (January 1976), 77–92. “The Financial Expert: Kubera’s Myth in a Parable of Life and Death,” The International Fiction Review, Vol.3, No. 2, July 1976, 126–132. “Surfacing: Apocalyptic Ghost Story,” Mosaic, IX/3, Spring 1976, 1–9. “The Desert And The Garden: The Theme of Completeness in Voss,” Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 1976–77, Vol. 22, No. 4, 557–569. Also excerpted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 9, 563–566. “The Swing In The Garden: Hood’s Pastoral.” Paper delivered at The Commonwealth In Canada Conference. Concordia University, Montreal, October 19, 1978. “Don Gutteridge’s Mythic Tetralogy,” Canadian Literature, No.87 (Winter 1980), 25–41. “The Grotesque Satire of A House For Mr. Biswas,” Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 30, No.3, Autumn 1984, 487–496. The Deflationary Structure In Metcalf’s Novellas,” The Malahat Review, No. 70, March 1985, 118–130. “In The Aftermath of Empire: Identities In The Commonwealth Of Literature,” Canadian Forum, Vol. 68, No. 780, 25–33. General/ Theatre Articles: “Why is English theatre in Quebec becoming politically irrelevant?” Performing Arts in Canada, Winter 1978, Vol.XV, No.4, 29–32. “Alexander Hausvater’s theatre of political shock,” Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. XVII, No.1, 48–50. “Guido Tondino: a first rate designer in a third world theatre,” Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 41–43. “Production Log of Spinoza,” Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. XIX, No. 1, 47–54. “The dramatic art of Brian Bedford: Unravelling the mystery from the text,” Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. XX, No.4, 33–38. “The Rise and Fall of London’s Grand Theatre,” Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. XXI, No.2, 25–29. “The Mythology of Hockey,” Canadian Forum,Vol.63, No. 727 (April 1983), 6–9. “The Importance of Being Hockney,” Canadian Forum, Vol. 65, No. 755, 31–33. “The Magic Craft: John Murrell’s poetic theatre,” Canadian Forum, Vol. 66, No. 759, 35–38. “Comus Music Theatre,” Canadian Forum, Vol. 66, No. 762 (October 1986), 40–42. “The Play’s The Thing: The Morality of Rewriting,” Canadian Forum, Vol. 66, No. 764, 24–28. “Trying To Get Home: A Profile of Heath Lamberts,” Canadian Forum, Vol. 67, No. 768 (April 1987), 33–36. “The Peter Moss Solution,” Canadian Forum, Vol. 67, No.770 (June/July 1987), 45–49. “Enter Stage Centre: Can Toronto Build a National Theatre?” Canadian Forum, Vol. 67, No. 771, 24–29. “Robin Phillips Reascendant,” Canadian Forum, Vol. 67, No. 773 (November 1987), 29–35. “An Actor’s Impressions: 1964–1980 (Barry MacGregor),” Canadian Theatre Review, No. 30 (Spring 1981), 14–17. “Eduard Kochergin at the Shaw,” Canadian Theatre Review, No. 61, Winter 1989, 13–18. “The Goldby Touch,” Theatrum, April/May 1992, 8–12. “Carver’s Web,” Theatrum, June/July/August 1992, 16–20. “Shaw, Our Contemporary,” Theatrum, April/May 1993, 16–20. “Casting Light on Stage Narrative,” Theatrum, Summer 1994, 13–17. “Being God’s Fool: Heath Lamberts on Comedy,” Theatrum, Winter 1994–95, 13–17. “Bringing Hamlet Home,” Canadian Forum, June 2000, 16–19. “Murderous Indifference,” Literary Review of Canada, Vol.9, No. 3, April 2001, 11–14. Also posted on www.groong.com. “Celebrating Stratford’s Fiftieth,” Books in Canada, Vol. 31, No.7, October 2002, 18–23. Poetry: the third eye, Quarry,
Antigonish Review, Impulse, Inscape,
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Acting (for film): Homeless
(2006). Pastor Harris. Produced, written, and directed by Horace Chan. 15
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