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Body So Fluorescent

by (author) Amanda Cordner & David Di Giovanni

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2023
Subjects
Women Authors, Canadian, Gay & Lesbian
Categories
LGBTQ2S characters

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    ISBN
    9780369104304
    Publish Date
    Apr 2023
    List Price
    $13.99

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Description

  • Will be part of Buddies in Bad Times’s 2022–2023 season with a production in April 2023.
  • The play was adapted into a short film in 2020 and presented at the Inside Out Film Festival.
  • First produced at the IGNITE! Festival, Calgary, in June 2017

About the authors

Amanda Cordner is a Toronto-based creator and performer. Within her company Madonnanera, Amanda and creative partner David di Giovanni developed and toured the award-winning solo show Body So Fluorescent across North America. Madonnanera’s second show, Wring the Roses, was featured in Why Not Theatre’s RISER Project in 2019. Amanda is also pursuing a career in film and television as a creator and actor. Her company adapted Body So Fluorescent into a short film in 2020, which was presented at the Inside Out Film Festival and won the Emerging Canadian Artist Award. TV credits include Sort Of, The Expanse, and Baroness von Sketch Show.

Amanda Cordner's profile page

David di Giovanni is a theatre director and creator currently living in Toronto. He holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Directing from York University. In 2017, he co-founded Madonnanera, a rich creative collaboration with Amanda Cordner that is invested in making outrageous and intersectional theatre work. He has won awards for Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Play, and Outstanding Production (NOW Magazine’s Best of SummerWorks) and Emerging Canadian Artist (Inside Out) for Body So Fluorescent and was nominated for Outstanding Ensemble (Dora Mavor Moore Awards) for Wring the Roses.

David Di Giovanni's profile page

Awards

  • Nominated, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers

Editorial Reviews

Body So Fluorescent is poetic, heartbreaking, and insightful.”

Andrea Warner, Georgia Straight

“The script holds nothing back—though the characters seem to wish it would.”

Mae Smith, alt.theatre

Body So Fluorescent is brilliant. The show is ferocious and moving.”

Bruce McCulloch, Kids in the Hall