Larry Fineberg (born 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright. He is most noted for his 1976 play Eve, an adaptation of Constance Beresford-Howe's novel The Book of Eve which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.[1]

Originally from the Côte-Saint-Luc borough of Montreal, Fineberg briefly attended McGill University[2] before transferring to Emerson College in Boston.[3] While there, he was a producer of several theatre productions, including Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret, and worked as an assistant director to Frank Loesser.[3] He returned to Canada in 1972, and his first play Stonehenge Trilogy was staged by Toronto's Factory Theatre that year.[3]

His other plays have included Death (1972),[3] Hope (1972),[3] All the Ghosts (1973), Lady Celeste's Tea (1974), Waterfall (1974), Human Remains (1975),[3] Fresh Disasters (1976), Life on Mars (1979), Montreal (1981),[3] Devotion (1985),[3] Failure of Nerve (1991), Doctor's Liver (1992), The Final Solution (1992) and The Clairvoyant (2000),[4] as well as an adaptation of Medea which was staged at the Stratford Festival in 1978.[5]

Fineberg was a writer-in-residence at Stratford and Buddies in Bad Times,[3] and a founding member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.[3]

Many of Fineberg's plays addressed gay themes.[3] Fineberg identified himself as bisexual.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Playwrights share award for best play". The Globe and Mail, February 1, 1977.
  2. ^ "Fineberg attacks obsession with past". The Globe and Mail, November 15, 1977.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Fineberg, Larry". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 13, 2010.
  4. ^ "Strong cast molds new play". Toronto Star, March 9, 2000.
  5. ^ "Electric Medea holds the stage". The Globe and Mail, July 3, 1978.
  6. ^ David Booth and Kathleen Gallagher, How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars and Advocates. University of Toronto Press, 2003. ISBN 9780802085566. p. 184.


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