ADJUDICATION

Performing schools will receive a private adjudication.

John Lazarus

Festival Adjudicator

John Lazarus grew up in Montreal, where he attended the National Theatre School, the proud sponsor of our Festival. He graduated in 1969 and moved to Vancouver, where he worked as an actor, TV and radio broadcaster, advertising copywriter, screenwriter, theatre critic, and primarily as a playwright and theatre instructor, teaching at Studio 58 and Vancouver Film School, and also adjudicating many drama festivals for A.B.C.D.E. and Theatre B.C. In 2000 he moved to Kingston, Ontario, to teach at the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University and occasionally at N.T.S., and to continue adjudicating for Ontario organizations. He has written dozens of produced plays, and last October, his book “Two Ways About It: The Inside and Outside of Playwriting” was published by J. Gordon Shillingford Inc. Besides adjudicating the Festival, John was also the judge for our YouthWright playwriting competition this year. Coincidentally, this spring marks John’s return to Vancouver, and he says he can think of no better way to celebrate this fact than by also returning to the very welcome task of adjudicating for ABCDE.