Brian Drader (born 1960) is a Canadian stage actor and playwright.^[1] He is best known for his plays Prok, about Alfred Kinsey and Clara McMillen,^[1] and The Fruit Machine, about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's controversial 1960s fruit machine project to identify homosexual people.^[2]

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, he is currently based in Montreal, Quebec, where he teaches playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada.^[3]

His other plays have included Easter Eggs,^[4] TuckTuck,^[5] The Author's Voice,^[6] The Norbals,^[7] Mind of the Iguana,^[8] Liar,^[9] To Be Frank,^[10] Everybody's Business and Curtsy.

Awards

He won the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition in 1997 for The Norbals.^[7]

Prok was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2003 Governor General's Awards,^[11] and won the Lambda Literary Award for drama at the 16th Lambda Literary Awards.^[12]