Curtis Campbell

Curtis Campbell (formerly Curtis te Brinke) is a Canadian writer.[1] He is most noted for his 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival play Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay, which he cowrote with Daniel Krolik.[2]

Krolik and Campbell received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Original Play, Independent Theatre in 2023.[3] They returned to the 2023 Fringe Festival with the sequel show Blake and Clay's Gay Agenda.[4]

An alumnus of Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton, Ontario, he won an Outstanding Performance award at the Ontario Drama Festival in 2012.[5] He subsequently studied theatre at York University.[6]

In 2016, Campbell and Sadie Epstein-Fine self-produced the play Tire Swing at Toronto's Kensington Hall.[6]

His novel Dragging Mason County is slated for publication in fall 2023.[7]

References
  1. Glenn Sumi, "Fringe review: Gay For Pay With Blake & Clay is straight-up brilliant". Now, July 12, 2022.
  2. Karen Fricker, "Pitch-perfect Fringe festival satire takes aim at straight culture’s representation of LGBTQ+ experience". Toronto Star, July 13, 2022.
  3. Hélène Crowley, "Announcing the 2023 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners". Intermission Magazine, June 27, 2023.
  4. Glenn Sumi, "They had a hit Fringe play about coaching straight actors to play gay. They’re back to send up the queer community". Toronto Star, July 1, 2023.
  5. Elizabeth Saldivar, "CHSS students win three awards at Sears Drama Festival ; Curtis Te Brinke and Hugh Lobb's two-person play moves on to regionals". Seaforth Huron Expositor, April 4, 2012.
  6. Chris Dupuis, "Why two young queer artists are self-producing their own play". Xtra Magazine, October 17, 2016.
  7. CBC Books (August 15, 2023). "25 Canadian YA books to read in fall 2023". CBC. Retrieved August 18, 2023.


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