The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee (4 page)

Acknowledgements

Thanks a million, first of all, to Pablo Felices-Luna for championing this play.

Thanks also to the rest of the team at Carousel Players, the cast and crew of the premiere production, and the staff and students at the Ontario schools to which the production toured.

My gratitude to Allen MacInnis and Stephen Colella at Young People's Theatre for seed funding to write the earliest drafts of this play, and to the Ontario Arts Council, which provided those funds through its Theatre Creators' Reserve program.

Lastly but not leastly, thanks as always to my amazing family and friends.

Daniel Karasik writes drama, poetry, and fiction. A recent grand prize winner of the CBC Literary Award for Fiction and the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Award, he is the author of two other books: The Crossing Guard & In Full Light, a collection of plays (Playwrights Canada Press), and Hungry, a poetry collection (Cormorant Books). He also works as an actor and director and helms the Toronto-based theatre company Tango Co., through which he has developed many of his plays, produced across Canada, in the United States, and regularly in translation in Germany.