John Lazarus has been an award-winning playwright since 1970. His plays include Babel Rap, Dreaming and Duelling, The Late Blumer, Village of Idiots, and The Grandkid. John taught playwriting for a decade at Studio 58, and sporadically at the Vancouver Film School and National Theatre School. He retired in 2021 after twenty-one years of teaching at Queen's University. He and his wife currently divide their time between Vancouver and Kingston, Ontario. His book Two Ways About It: The Inside and Outside of Playwriting was published in the fall of 2023 by J. Gordon Shillingford.