PLAYWRIGHT
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| HAPPY: A VERY GAY LITTLE MUSICAL (a mini-unmusical about gays and musicals) |
April 2008 | Buddies Theatre |
| 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 Theatre |
| CRACK (a play about addiction) |
Feb 2007 | James Street North Theatre |
| BAD ACTING TEACHERS (the title says it all) |
April 2006 | Buddies Theatre |
| ROPE ENOUGH (a modern Leopold and Loeb story) |
April 2005 | Buddies Theatre |
| 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 Theatre |
| 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 Theatre |
| AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE STRANGE CASE OF THE WILDBOY (an avant-garde exploration of the tale of a gay "wild child") |
Sept 92 | Buddies Theatre |
| 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 Theatre |
| 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 Theatre |
| BAN THIS SHOW (a theatrical biography of Robert Mapplethorpe) |
Sept 90 | Buddies Theatre |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Music by John Alcorn | ||
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| TOM JONES (adaptation of the original operetta, co-written with Christopher Newton with music by Edward German) |
1985 | Shaw Festival |
"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 |
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"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 SPACE |
-Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco re: MY NIGHT WITH TENNESSEE
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"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 |
