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Daniel Brooks, Artistic Director of Necessary Angel Theatre Company, is a prolific and versatile artist whose innovation and risk-taking have made him a leader within the Canadian cultural landscape.
A director, writer, actor and teacher, Brooks has been recognized with accolades and awards throughout Canada and around the world. A tremendous mentor and inspiration to an entire generation of theatre artists, Brooks is the recipient of the inaugural Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre (the most prestigious theatre award in Canada).
Selected Timeline
2005
Half Life (Mighton)
Necessary Angel
A poetic and moving investigation into identity,
love and the nature of memory.
Dora Nomination for Direction and Best Production
2004
Bigger Than Jesus (Brooks/Miller)
Necessary Angel
A multi-media mass for a modern age.
Dora Winner for Best Production,
Dora Nomination for Best New Play and Direction
2003
Phedre (Racine)
Soulpepper
A classic tragedy of incurable desire.
2002
The Good Life (Brooks)
Tarragon
A modern look at relationships – revolving around Plato's Symposium that seeks to discover whether love is the question or the answer.
Best Production (Calgary),
Dora Nomination for Direction
2001
The Drowsy Chaperone (Lambert and Morrison)
Mirvish Productions
An entertaining and affectionate parody of the
musical theatre genre.
2000
Betrayal (Pinter)
Soulpepper
A love triangle told in reverse chronological time.
Best Production (Montreal),
Dora Nomination for Direction
1999
Faust (Goethe)
Tarragon
A contemporary re-imagining of Goethe's classic, adapted and staged to play sharp intellectual concerns against gnawing sensual drives.
Dora Nomination for Direction
1999
Endgame (Beckett)
Soulpepper
The hypnotic marriage of dry comedy and deep despair.
Dora Nomination for Direction and Best Production
1998
Insomnia (Brooks)
Theatre Centre
A tormented soul whose peace of mind has been obliterated by urban and moral pressures.
Dora Nomination for Direction and Writing,
Chalmers Nomination
1998
The Designated Mounrer (Shawn)
Tarragon and the Edinburgh Festival
A pre-apocalyptic examination of our socio-cultural moorings.
Dora Nomination for Direction and Best Production
1997
Monster (Brooks/MacIvor)
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A one-actor, multi-character exploration of internal darkness that leaves audiences squirming.
Best Production (Baltimore, Edmonton),
Governor General’s Award Short List
1997
Possible Worlds (Mighton)
Augusta Company
A shifting world where it’s impossible to pin down any of our various realities.
Dora Nomination for Direction
1996
Here Lies Henry (Brooks/MacIvor)
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A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.
Dora Nomination for Direction and Writing,
Chalmers Canadian Play Award,
Best Production (Edinburgh)
1992
The Lorca Play (Brooks/MacIvor)
Augusta Company
Seven women and MacIvor onstage together, deconstructing and piecing together a unique, fiery take on Lorca's The House Of Bernarda Alba.
Dora Award for Direction and for the Acting Ensemble
1992
The Noam Chomsky Lectures (Brooks/Verdecchia)
A lesson in giving equal weight to politics and drama in political theatre. The constantly evolving production, created and performed by Brooks and Verdecchia, drew on Chomsky's scarily true theories, recent media stories and the form and function of local theatre critics.
Chalmers Canadian Play Award,
Governor General’s Award Short List
1992
House (Brooks/MacIvor)
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A trip inside the mind of a man who has lost everything and had little to begin with.
Dora Award for Direction,
Chalmers Canadian Play Award,
Governor General’s Award Short List
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