SELECTED PLAYS WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SKY GILBERT
| GREG’S Cookies (two queer allies meet The Real Church Street) | Oct 2023 | The Imp |
| Inside (a confused man meets a gay porn star) | June 2023 | Inside Tarragon Extra Space |
| Pat and Skee (a play about Sky’s parents) | Feb 2022 | Theatre Aquarius |
| The Little Show (a COVID ‘Diversionary Tactic’) | Nov 2020 | Chez Bonbon |
| Conversations with Faggots (three separate sets of conversations between 6 typical faggots) | Sept 2019 | Alumnae Theatre |
| Shakespeare’s Criminal (a workshop of an opera composed by Dustin Peters) | April 2019 | Factory Studio Theatre |
| A Nice Day in the Park (old gay man meets young trans person who is in love with him) | Feb 2019 | Chez Bonbon |
| Bungalow (a Hamilton hardcore guy meets a Hamilton gentrifier in the front yard) | Jul 2019 | Artbar, Hamilton |
| I Cook He Does the Dishes (a play about John Cage and Merce Cunningham) | Mar 2018 | The Theatre Centre |
| Cheri (a musical adaptation of Colette’s novel) | 2018 | Toronto Fringe |
| It’s All Tru (a play about the criminalization of AIDs) | May 2016 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| The Terrible Parents (a play about my mother’s affair with ‘Jerry’) | May 2015 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| Toller (a play about Toller Cranston) | Nov 2015 | Artword Arber Hamilton |
| My Dinner with Casey Donovan (a young nerd has his favourite porn star for dinner) | Mar 2013 | Theatre Passe Muraille |
| A Few Brittle Leaves (two older women — sisters — come to terms with aging) | May 2013 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| Naked Hamilton (a Hamilton hardcore hooker and an alcoholic have fun) | Nov 2012 | Artbar, Hamilton (Fringe NYC 2016) |
| The Situationists (modern day Situationists try and change the world; end up changing themselves) | Apr 2012 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| Hamilton Bus Stop (a rich lady and gay hooker chat in a bus stop) | Nov 2010 | Artbar, Hamilton |
| I Have AIDS. Buddies in Bad Times (what it’s like to have AIDS in 2009) | Apr 2009 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| HAPPY: A VERY GAY LITTLE MUSICAL (a mini-unmusical about gays and musicals) | April 2008 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| LADYLIKE (a play for Nina Arsenault) | Feb 2007 | James Street North Theatre |
| WILL THE REAL J.T. LEROY PLEASE STAND UP? (a fantasy on a real scandal) | April 2007 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| CRACK (a play about addiction) | Feb 2007 | James Street North Theatre |
| BAD ACTING TEACHERS (the title says it all) | April 2006 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| ROPE ENOUGH (a modern Leopold and Loeb story) | April 2005 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| THE EMOTIONALISTS (a play about Ayn Rand) | April 2000 | The Music Gallery |
| SCHUBERT LIED (a play about Franz Schubert his gay life and death from syphilis) | Mar 1998 | The Theatre Centre |
| JIM DANDY (a cinema verite play about Andy Warhol and his movies) | Sept 95 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| DRAG QUEENS ON TRIAL (a comedy about three drag queens who must defend themselves against society) | 1994 | The Glines NYC |
| PLAY MURDER (a murder mystery based on the life of torch singer Libby Holman) | Sept 93 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE STRANGE CASE OF THE WILDBOY (an avant-garde exploration of the tale of a gay “wild child”) | Sept 92 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| MY NIGHT WITH TENNESSEE (a one act play in which Tennessee Williams asks a boy to his room in Vancouver, to read poetry for him while dressed only in his underwear) | 1992 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| IN WHICH PIER PAOLO PASOLINI SEES HIS OWN DEATH IN THE FACE OF A BOY (a one act avante-garde fantasia on Pasolini’s love of the violent life) | 1991 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| BAN THIS SHOW (a theatrical biography of Robert Mapplethorpe) | Sept 90 | Buddies in Bad Times |
| DRAG QUEENS IN OUTER SPACE (a comedy about three drag queens lost in space and time and gay politics) | 1990 | Theatre Rhinoceros, San Fran |
| THEATRELIFE (a comedy about a small theatre company’s adventures producing an Edwardian melodrama) | April 87 | Poor Alex, Toronto |
| THE POSTMAN RINGS ONCE (a comedy about a young gay men who goes to Lana Turner for advice) | 1985 | Alberta Theatre Projects |
| THE DRESSING GOWN (a tale off a magical dressing gown passed from man to man; based on La Ronde) | Oct 84 | Poor Alex, Toronto |
| PASOLINI/PELOSI (an avante-garde investigation into the death of Pasolini) | April 83 | Theatre Centre, Toronto |
| MURDER/LOVER (a theatrical fantasy of the real life love affair between Patti Smith and Sam Shepherd) | Sept 82 | Theatre Centre, Toronto |
| CAVAFY (a fantasia on the life and work of gay poet Constantine Cavafy) | Nov 81 | Adelaide Court, Toronto |
| LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! (a fantasia on the life and work of gay poet Frank O’ Hara) | Sept 80 | Theatre Centre, Toronto |
| ART RAT (an avante-garde punk-o-rama extravaganza based on the life and poetry of Patti Smith) | Feb 80 | Cinema Lumiere, Toronto |
PLAYS WRITTEN BY SKY GILBERT AND DIRECTED BY OTHERS
| TEN RUMINATIONS ON AN ELEGY ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ( a one act play about the possibility that Shakespeare might have been gay) | director Franco Boni | Riverside Studios, London, England |
| THE WHORE’S REVENGE (a Victorian melodrama about a woman with an extremely large clitoris) | director Edward Roy | Tarragon, Toronto |
| PHYLISS (workshop) (a modern adaptation of Phaedra) | director Elliot Hayes | Stratford Festival, Canada |
| LOVE FOR A STRANGER (a one act theatrevideo romance) | director Charles Murdoch | ARC Gallery, Toronto |
| FUCHSIA SHOCK (a play about Andy Warhol’s Factory) | director Ken McDougall | Tarragon, Toronto |
| GLORIA (a play about three people who meet God) | director Charles Murdoch | Theatre Centre, Toronto |
MUSICALS WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SKY GILBERT
| Music by John Alcorn | ||
| SUZIE GOO: PRIVATE SECRETARY (a drag musical about an enterprising secretary and her metoric rise in the sixties corporate world) | Sept 91 | Buddies Theatre |
| CAPOTE AT YADDO (a musical reminiscence of Truman Capote as a young man at a writer’s retreat) | April 90 | Factory Theatre, Toronto |
| Music by Cathy Nosaty | ||
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| LOLA STARR BUILDS HER DREAM HOME (a drag musical based on Lana Turner’s murder of her lover Johnny Stompanato) | Aug 89 | Edmonton Fringe |
| Music by Micah Barnes | ||
| DARK GLASSES (a comic musical about straight unrequited love) | March 84 | YPT, Toronto |
| LACEY (a musical about Canadian gay poet E.A. Lacey) | April 84 | Theatre Centre,Toronto |
| MARILYN MONROE IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN JOE’S BRAIN (a musical about Poet Joe Brainard, Andy Warhol, Marylin Monroe and boredom) | Oct 83 | Theatre Centre,Toronto |
| AN EVENING (a one act gay musical romance) | March 82 | Factory Theatre,Toronto |
OPERETTA/OPERA LIBRETTI BY SKY GILBERT
| TOM JONES (adaptation of the original operetta, co-written with Christopher Newton with music by Edward German) | 1985 | Shaw Festival |
THE CRITIC’S RAVE
“The truth is, Sky Gilbert has more theatrical flair in his little finger than anybody else in the Toronto scene….It is a measure of Sky Gilbert’s theatrical genius…..”
The Toronto Globe and Mail re: LOLA STARR
“Toronto writer Sky Gilbert’s effusive stage entertainment manages to package “up with drag” affirmation as a cheerful inclusive reminder to pay attention to one’s own nature, whatever the costume of choice might be.”
San Francisco Chronicle re: DRAG QUEENS IN OUTER SPAC
“This tribute to Williams the writer, the poet, and the human being examines pain without being maudlin and joy with being whimsical. Sky Gilbert has written a play to be savoured.”
Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco re: MY NIGHT WITH TENNESSEE
“A guarded celebration of otherness…I am haunted by the line “Dream no more and you shall live for ever.”
The London Times re: TEN RUMINATIONS
“Gilbert has spoken eloquently about society’s persecution and misunderstanding of non-conformity- and that’s a theme that goes beyond the specifics of homosexuality.”
The Toronto Star re: DRAG QUEENS ON TRIAL
“Asking some subtly profound questions about how we define ourselves, More Divine is a sometimes wry and often touching take on the notion of queerness within our dominant culture.”
Toronto’s EyeWeekly re: MORE DIVINE
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