Sean Reycraft

Sean Reycraft is a Canadian screenwriter, television producer and playwright.[1] He is most noted for his theatrical play Pop Song, which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in the Youth Theatre division in 2001,[2] and as the screenwriter of Laurie Lynd's 2007 film Breakfast with Scot.[3]

Sean Reycraft
Reycraft in 2015.
NationalityCanada
Occupationtelevision producer and playwright

The son of former Ontario MPP Doug Reycraft,[4] he was born and raised in Glencoe.[1] He was an actor in the early 1990s before premiering his first play, Einstein Dreams at Buddies in Bad Times in 1996.[5] His later plays included Reconstruction,[6] The End of Dancing,[7] Roundabout,[8] Strange Things Happen,[9] and One Good Marriage.[1]

He studied film and television writing at the Canadian Film Centre,[4] and has since been a writer and producer on television series such as Braceface, The Eleventh Hour, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Instant Star, Slings & Arrows, The Best Years, 90210, Being Erica, The Vampire Diaries, Switched at Birth, Finding Carter and Killjoys.

He is out as gay.[1]

References
  1. "Reycraft's craft". Now, January 22, 2004.
  2. "Chalmers winners for the last time ; Rich theatre awards will be replaced with grants system". Toronto Star, May 15, 2001.
  3. "Gay 'thoughtful comedy' stars fictional Leafs player". Winnipeg Free Press, November 25, 2006.
  4. "Prime Time: Citizen writer Tony Atherton follows a group of students taking a crash course on writing for TV". Ottawa Citizen, May 27, 1999.
  5. "Experimenting with Rhubarb: Unpredictable fest of short works opens with six new shows". Toronto Star, February 1, 1996.
  6. "Parental anguish, guilt hit the mark". Toronto Star, August 18, 1996.
  7. "What happens when the Shaw meets gay theatre?: The result is a Winter Fling". National Post, December 11, 1999.
  8. "Staged misbehavin' ; Xtreme lineup won't shy away from dangerous questions". Toronto Star, February 28, 2002.
  9. "Salons & Soirees". Toronto Star, April 10, 2003.
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