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	Daniel MacIvor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daniel MacIvor (born 1962) is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director.
		MacIvor formed the theatre company da da kamera in Toronto for whom he has written, directed, and acted.
		Recently, MacIvor has made the transition to film and has written and directed several independent films, which are usually made in his home province of Nova Scotia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_MacIvor (125 words)

	Daniel MacIvor - Northern Stars
		Daniel was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, on July 23, 1962, and studied theatre at Dalhousie University in Halifax and then at George Brown College in Toronto.
		Daniel also appeared on an episode of the TV series Forever Knight in 1992 and costarred in the feature I Love A Man in Uniform (1993), which was nominated for six Genie Awards that year.
		Daniel was cast in a hilarious recurring role as Nathan, the high-strung roommate of Don McKellar's agoraphobic TV addict.
	www.northernstars.ca /actorsmno/macivor_danielbio.html (980 words)

	Eye - Review - Monster - 04.23.98
		MacIvor is a young star with strong stage presence, and Brooks' characteristically showy yet simple production employs a series of arresting light and sound effects that sting the audience and drive the story forward.
		Even in a poor play, MacIvor's considerable talents are hard to discount, but Monster's convoluted intentions and broad characterizations leave the actor pedaling uphill so hard and for so long that his performance is more Tour de France than tour de force.
		The AA meeting scene, in which MacIvor develops interplay between five different voices, is a prime example -- a moment of acting brilliance wasted on stock characters too sketchy to be genuinely engaging.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.23.98/theatre/monster.html (641 words)

	village voice > theater > Cul-de-Sac by David Ng
		Daniel MacIvor's new solo drama also focuses on a victim—a gay man murdered in the middle of the night.
		Working on a bare stage, MacIvor impersonates six neighbors who claim to have overheard the grisly homicide, each giving his or her account of the fateful night.
		MacIvor mines his caricatures for every ounce of empathy and even the occasional nugget of wit.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0449,ng,59045,11.html (232 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS Two Tragically Hip Looks at Humanity's Wretchedness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MacIvor's multicharacter monologue taps into the "disaster chic" of David Cronenberg's 1995 film Crash or the mind of a local developer who wants to cash in on the current, morbid fascination among the young, well-heeled, and seemingly immortal by opening a line of cafés based on bloody plane wrecks.
		MacIvor (with the help of director Daniel Brooks) is a compelling entertainer with a winning presence, but there's an emptiness at Monster's core, and it has a lot to do with pop culture's current fetish for ironic distance.
		MacIvor effortlessly flits from the teenager's telling of how the neighbor kid Boyle dismembered his father with a hacksaw to Al and Jeannine's "discussion" about having a baby to Al's memory of his drunken father indulging on a Saturday while shouting out the names of drinks above a cheesy lounge soundtrack (the play's funniest moment).
	bob.citypaper.com /arts/story.asp?id=4502 (890 words)

	SEE Magazine: March 13, 2003
		Initially, MacIvor balked at working up a story that was partially set on a plane, but he realized this constraint coalesced with the script he’d already been working on and furnished a fresh jolt of inspiration.
		MacIvor brought this openness with him to the set, where he extended his trust to his small but experienced crew and allowed them to be collaborators on the final product.
		MacIvor is undaunted by the reaction of movie industry types, who find the film’s innovative structure too complicated for mainstream filmgoers.
	www.seemagazine.com /Issues/2003/0313/film2.htm (1025 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of the three, the only truly one-person play is Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks’ Monster, first performed in 1998, the last installment in a trilogy of solo works (together with House and Here Lies Henry) conceived by the creative duo.
		(MacIvor is primary author and performer while Brooks is dramaturge and director.) MacIvor conjures numerous characters of various ages, sexes, and walks of life over the course of Monster, all without the aid of props or costumes and while remaining fixed at centre stage for virtually the entire play.
		At the core of the onion that is the play is the story of a suburban teenager who tortures and murders his father over the course of a weekend, dismembering him piece by piece with a hacksaw.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/180/5633_Falkenstein.html (650 words)

	Wilby Press Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The exurban life is given a heartfelt send-up in writer-director Daniel MacIvor's Wilby Wonderful, a multicharacter comedy of terrors, with everyone holding his or her secrets barely at bay.
		Once launched, MacIvor went on to write, direct and star in dozens of plays throughout the eighties and nineties (many of those in collaboration with his artistic partner Daniel Brooks).
		The first is Daniel MacIvor's latest film, Wilby Wonderful, which opens in Toronto this Friday after having had its premiere last month during the film festival.
	www.wilbywonderful.com /pressclub.html (2798 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: In on It (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Daniel MacIvor has one of the most refreshing and casually pure approaches to making theater that the New York stage has seen in years.
		Though much has been made of MacIvor’s late introduction to the theater (he only began writing and acting during his University days, and has since done a good deal of film and television work as well), he challenges trends and conventions alike with the familiarity of a seasoned pro and the exuberance of a newcomer.
		MacIvor pays a rapt attention to detail that balances style and substance in a way that is both emotionally engaging and intellectually challenging to the audience.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/143/in-on-it.html (449 words)

	TAKE ONE: The increasing lightness of being Daniel MacIvor - Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In MacIvor's case, because he has a grand generosity of spirit, the scrutiny was invariably welcomed.
		MacIvor is a man in a state of moving his emotional allegiance from stage to film.
		MacIvor walked away from New York with an Obie Award for his two-man play, In On It, which he wrote and co-starred with Jim Allodi (The Uncles and Men with Brooms).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_41_11/ai_99984452 (1279 words)

	Excellence Marks the Spot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor has a flair for characterization and an ear for the comic idiosyncrasies of modern speech, and his ungainly novelistic canvas teems with chatty, wayward personalities.
		MacIvor surrounds her with a spectrum of lovers and colleagues and quirky incidental characters, such as an expletive-prone gigolo and an arrogant publishing Brahmin (who, in one of MacIvor's devastating satirical touches, edits a rag called Charles: The Very Magazine).
		But MacIvor wants to do more with "You Are Here" than create juicy roles for actors: He also aims to take Alison, and the audience, on a philosophical journey, and on that level he is not as successful.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801428.html?nav=rss_print/style (648 words)

	TheatreBooks: Spotlight On...McHardy on MacIvor
		At only 39 years of age, Daniel MacIvor has created a body of work as playwright, actor and director in both theatre and film that distinguishes him as one of Canada's true "creative geniuses".
		It is that belief that prompted Daniel along with his producer Sherrie Johnson to form their company da da kamera in 1986.
		Daniel's work has an enormous appeal for young people who become engaged with both his characters and more importantly the ideas they present.They feel that strength of belief and in a world " where there seems to be progressively less and less to believe in", Daniel's work inspires thought and discussion.
	www.theatrebooks.com /spotlight/mchardy_macivor.html (689 words)

	Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Daniel MacIvor in Here Lies Henry, by MacIvor and Daniel Brooks, at Buddies in Bad Times in 1996, directed by Brooks.
		He has twice won the Dora Mavor Moore Award, is a Chalmers Award laureate and was nominated for the Governor General's Award.
		MacIvor's first feature film, Past Perfect (produced by Camelia Frieberg) premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and played in theatres across Canada in 2003.
	www.canadiantheatre.com /dict.pl?term=Daniel+MacIvor (437 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Cul-De-Sac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Daniel MacIvor is one of Canada's most highly regarded performance artists.
		But until then, MacIvor is willing to string us along, building tension through bursts of frightening flash-forward as he seemingly amuses us with a look at Leonard's more benign neighbors.
		MacIvor's skill as a performer and author continues to grow with each new piece.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117925341?categoryid=33&cs=1 (789 words)

	e.Peak (24/2/2003) arts: film: Not quite perfect
		Charlotte (Rebecca Jenkins) and Cecil (Daniel MacIvor) meet on an overnight plane from Halifax to Vancouver after both getting out of bad relationships, and over the course of the flight they find themselves falling in love.
		MacIvor worked for several years on the screenplay, and the result is obvious a lot of time was put into it to get it right.
		Both Jenkins and MacIvor execute beautifully the simple yet complex action of falling in love with each other, and then they also perform the tragic and desperate times that can accompany a relationship with just as much commitment and reality.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2003-1/issue8/ar-pastperf.html (515 words)

	'The Five Senses': Film Drifts Amid Shallowness of Characters and Plot
		The most enjoyable scenes are those between Rona (Mary-Louise Parker, who, with her suggestive lower lip and brimming, clear eyes, looks like Mary Tyler Moore with all the primness ironed out) and her best friend, Robert (Daniel MacIvor), cattily going over the pitfalls of relationships.
		MacIvor's character is an eager busybody whose discomfort comes from involving himself in his own life.
		There is more going on with these characters than with the others because they are talking to each other, and their inability to assess themselves is a more satisfying version of the ideas that Podeswa, who also wrote the script, is pushing to get across elsewhere.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/071400five-film-review.html (773 words)

	[No title]
		Daniel MacIvor (a confirmed fag) plays Molly Parker's spurned former boyfriend, tidy, neurotic Nathan, jailed for killing Al Waxman with a shopping bag full of cat food.
		In Twitch City, MacIvor is let out of jail one afternoon to be a guest on a talk show (within the show) hosted by Bruce McCullough.
		MacIvor is surprised to find himself accused of having killed Al Waxman "because he was gay".
	www.cs.toronto.edu /~catherin/twitch.html (913 words)

	In On It, a CurtainUp review
		Through two performers, known only as This One (MacIvor) and That One (Darren O'Donnell), we meet Ray (played by both at different times, signified by the donning of the aforementioned jacket) and the essential people in his life: his son, his (for the moment) wife, her lover, his wife and their son.
		This is the first time we have seen MacIvor as actor as well: his laid-back but idiosyncratic performance is integral to the sensibility of the work.
		MacIvor also directs and, as is the case with his writing, the result is sparse, brisk and clean.
	www.curtainup.com /inonit.html (710 words)

	Eye - Fables of the deconstruction - 03.21.02
		Take the poster for Daniel MacIvor's In on It, which features the playwright in profile, looking like a demonic messenger, his curled tongue extended toward the ear of startled co-star Darren O'Donnell.
		MacIvor's openness to ideas that arise in rehearsal allows for a unique approach to play development that uses residencies, workshops and touring performances to extend the gestation period far beyond that available to most new plays.
		Playwrights like MacIvor and O'Donnell, whose work is both experimental and accessible, have much to do with the comfort level audiences now have with plays that demystify the theatrical experience.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.21.02/arts/inonit.html (722 words)

	Director Daniel MacIvor - MoviesOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		First known for his work in theatre, MacIvor is Artistic Director of da da kamera, a theatre company he runs with his longtime business partner Sherrie Johnson.
		MacIvor has been working as a filmmaker since 1995 when he wrote and directed the now cult favorite shorts Wake Up Jerk Off and Margaret Atwood and the Problem With Canada.
		Also known as an actor, MacIvor was nominated for a Genie Award for his work in Jeremy Podeswaâs The Five Senses, and was a regular on Don McKellarâs CBC series Twitch City.
	www.moviesonline.ca /director409.htm (824 words)

	Past Perfect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What is most interesting is that MacIvor achieves an intimacy between his screen characters that is quite similar to that which is usually found on stage.
		She is in Daniel MacIvor’s new film WILBY WONDERFUL, was in last year’s MARION BRIDGE and was also in Tim Robbin’s BOB ROBERTS.
		MacIvor writes, directs and stars in this moving and funny tale of two souls and their desires.
	www.chlotrudis.org /movies/reviews/2004/past.html (674 words)

	VIFF2002 Film Note For PASTP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MacIvor retains certain dramatic strengths of the theatre, including a tight central cast, restricted use of space, and deftly articulate language, but explores film's capacity to effortlessly shift between place and time to create evocative juxtapositions of tone and meaning.
		From the charged rush of expectation that surges at the beginning of a relationship to the dull ache of inescapable sadness that hangs over ruined dreams, the film addresses themes of perfection--and what happens to a couple when their fantasy of themselves is irretrievably cracked.
		With a pair of nuanced central performances by MacIvor (who copped the Best Actor award at the 2002 Atlantic Film Festival) and Jenkins, Past Perfect is a moving portrait of love, loss, and a life beyond perfection.
	www.viff.org /viff02/filmguide/filmnote.php?FCode=PASTP (308 words)

	Alibris: Daniel MacIvor
		by MacIvor, Daniel, and Brooks, Daniel (Foreword by)
		Daniel MacIvor is Canada's most influential post-modern playwright.
		In his latest collaboration with director Daniel Brooks, MacIvor plays the role of Leonard, who narrates the events leading up to his murder while trying to understand them himself.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Daniel_MacIvor (249 words)

	FFWD Weekly - June 10, 2004
		Hamilton portrays Roberta, the Bob of the title, a young woman from a lower-middle-class background hitchhiking down the Trans-Canada, on the run from a broken home, a pedophilic father, a stifling boyfriend and, most urgently, some terrible unspoken crime that she appears to have committed.
		See Bob Run, which dates from the mid-1980s, is less complex than MacIvor’s more recent solo works, with their multiple layers and characters, but already shows signs of his recurring themes – dysfunctional relationships, dark family secrets, shocking crimes – as well as evidence of his gifts as a playwright.
		She is less assured in her one-way scenes with the various drivers who pick her up – including a lesbian trucker and a priest – which MacIvor uses as comic leavening for this otherwise sombre tale.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2004/0610/the5.htm (629 words)

	Seven Days: Street Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aside from a single chair onstage and a lighter that MacIvor flicks from time to time, from character to character, sound and light are the only production effects at work.
		Embodying multiple personalities so skillfully has made MacIvor what one Canadian newspaper called the country's "most popular postmodern playwright." That MacIvor's plays often find him reaching beyond the "fourth wall" to speak directly to audiences has also earned his work the "metatheatrical" label -- plays cognizant of their contrivance as plays.
		But for MacIvor, his approach has less to do with theory than with storytelling conceived as a highly social activity -- a link with the Cape Breton of his youth, where oral narrative traditions thrive.
	www.sevendaysvt.com /features/2005/street_theater?id=556&type=98 (992 words)

	Daniel MacIvor flying high on first feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Daniel MacIvor was first approached to write a screenplay in which 25 per cent of the action had to take place on a plane, his first impulse was to refuse.
		Cecil (MacIvor) and Charlotte (Rebecca Jenkins) meet on a flight between Halifax and Vancouver.
		The film runs on two tracks, the hours in which they fall in love alternating with a Saturday two years later when their relationship seems doomed.
	members.shaw.ca /rebeccajenkins/rjarticles/ppDanielMacIvorFlyingHigh03.htm (524 words)

	village voice > theater > In On It; Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas; The Bakkhai by Alisa Solomon
		MacIvor's play is sublime in its simplicity, profound in its square confrontation of unexpected death.
		Daniel MacIvor's In on It depends, too, on unadorned actors to create an entire world.
		The third level shows MacIvor and O'Donnell as creators of In on It, the latter often questioning the playwright's choices and seeking comment on his own acting.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0140,solomon,28663,11.html (869 words)

	City Pages - Pants On Fire
		Daniel MacIvor, who wrote the show and plays Henry with brilliant abandon, seems to relish the mystery of the character and the initial befuddlement of the audience.
		MacIvor, his director Daniel Brooks, and a group of collaborators constitute Da Da Kamera, whose bizarre moniker disguises the group's creative philosophy.
		In their Russo-Latin translation, the words mean "Yes yes to the small room," which, as MacIvor explains, is an homage to small theaters and the intimate theatrical experience.
	www.citypages.com /databank/19/893/article4115.asp (912 words)

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