Adam pettle biography
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Adam Pettle
Adam Pettle (born 1973) is a Canadian playwright, radio producer, and television writer, most noted as the showrunner and executive producer on the CTV and Ion Television hospital drama Saving Hope.
Biography
Theatre
Born in Toronto in 1973, Pettle is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada's (NTS) playwriting program.
Adam pettle biography
He received a BA in theatre from Dalhousie University in 1994.[1]
His first play, Therac 25 (1995), is autobiographical – Pettle received extensive treatment for thyroid cancer in the early 1990s.[2] It stages a developing romance in the halls of a cancer treatment unit.
His next drama, Zadie's Shoes (2000), is one of the few Canadian plays to successfully transfer from a medium-size house (The Factory Theatre) to the commercial Winter Garden Theatre. It has been produced across Canada as well as in the US and the UK.[3]
Zadie's Shoes, Sunday Father and Therac 25 have all been nominated f