John Coulter (playwright)
John Coulter was an Irish Canadian playwright and broadcaster.
Life
He graduated from the University of Manchester. He taught school in Belfast and Dublin until 1919.He moved to London in 1920, where he wrote for BBC radio. In 1924 he became editor of The Ulster Review, and in 1927, managing editor of The New Adelphi.
He moved to Toronto in 1936, where he wrote for CBC radio, and he married Olive Clare Primrose, a poet and short story writer. They had two daughters, including actress Clare Coulter.
His papers are held at McMaster University.
Works
Autobiography
In My Day: Memoirs, Willowdale, ON: Hounslow Press, 1980Novels
Turf Smoke, Ryerson Press, 1945Biography
Churchill, Ryerson Press, 1944Plays
Conochar, Broadcast BBC, 1934The Folks In Brickfield Street, Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1937The House In The Quiet Glen, Margaret Eaton Hall, Toronto, 1937 Holy Manhattan, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, 1940Pigs, Hart House Theatre, 1940Christmas Comes But Once A Year, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto 1942Transit Through Fire, University of Toronto at Convocation Hall, 1942Mr Oblomoff, 1946The Drums Are Out, Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1948Riel, New Play Society, Toronto, 1950Sleep My Pretty One, rehearsed reading St James Theatre, London, 1951Dierdre, Macmillan Theatre, Toronto, 1965The Crime Of Louis Riel, Dominion Drama Festival, London, Ontario 1966The Trial Of Louis Riel, Saskatchewan House, Regina, 1967- * Riel: a play: in two parts, Cromlech Press, 1972A Capful Of Pennies, Central Library Theatre, Toronto 1967The drums are out: a play in three acts, De Paul University, 1971While I Live, 1971Francois Bigot: A Rediscovery in Dramatic Form of the Fall of Quebec, Hounslow Press, Toronto, 1978Living Together, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto 1980Mr Kean Of Drury Lane, 1980