Sky Gilbert


Schuyler Lee Gilbert Jr. is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at the University of Toronto, before becoming the co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times, a Toronto theatre company dedicated to LGBT drama. His drag name is Jane. Gilbert is a former playwrighting professor at the University of Guelph.
Although primarily a playwright, Gilbert has also published novels, poetry and an autobiography. His works deal with issues of gender and sexuality. Many of Gilbert's works are produced at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. He has also been a regular columnist for Toronto's eye weekly.
Gilbert is the former University Chair in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.
Gilbert is artistic director of The Hammertheatre Company, founded in January 2007, a company devoted to theatre research in Hamilton, Ontario. The theatre is at the old Ancient Order of Foresters building in the James Street North neighbourhood, a center of Hamilton's art scene. In 2000, Pride Toronto named Gilbert and Michelle Douglas as grand marshals for its parade that year.
Gilbert has been living in Hamilton since 2004 with his partner, artist Ian Jarvis.

Works

Plays

Art Rat Lana Turner Has Collapsed! Cavafy Murder/Lover Pasolini/Pelosi
  • Peace Banquet: Ancient Greece Meets the Atomic Age - co-written with Micah Barnes, Cynthia Grant, Dean Gilmour, Charis Polatos, Kim Renders, Judith Rudakoff, Philip Shepherd, and Maureen White The Dressing Gown: a faery tale for adults only The Postman Rings Once: a comedy Theatrelife: a modern melodrama Drag Queens in Outer Space: a dreamplay Ban This Show: a play in the form of a dare The whore's revenge : a Victorian melodrama Suzie Goo: Private Secretary In Which Pier Paolo Pasolini Sees His Own Death in the Face of a Boy My Night With Tennessee An Investigation into the Strange Case of the Wildboy: a dream in the form of a document Play Murder Drag Queens on Trial: a courtroom melodrama Hester: An Introduction More Divine Jim Dandy Crater Ten ruminations on an elegy attributed to William Shakespeare,, Schubert Lied Independence The emotionalists Heliogabalus: A Love Story Rope Enough Bad Acting Teachers Will The Real J.T. LeRoy Please Stand up? I Have AIDS! The Situationists To Myself at 28 A Few Brittle Leaves''

Collections

This Unknown Flesh: A Collection of Plays by Sky Gilbert Painted, tainted, sainted: four plays Avoidance tactics
  • ''Perfectly abnormal: seven gay plays''

Novels

Guilty St. Stephen's I am Kasper Klotz An English Gentleman
  • ''Brother Dumb''

Poetry & Other

Digressions of a Naked Party Girl Temptations for a juvenile delinquent A Nice Place To Visit Ejaculations from the Charm Factory: a memoir
  • ''Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World''

Films

Listen to the City Film Kanada My Addiction Bubbles Galore My Summer Vacation The Blue Hermaphrodite No Contest II