Daniel MacIvor

Daniel was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and now lives in Toronto. He is a stalwart of the Canadian theatre scene having written and directed numerous award-winning plays including In On It which won a GLAAD Award and a Village Voice Obie Award and I Still Love You: Five Plays, winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award. As a filmmaker, Daniel’s first feature film, Past Perfect, premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, along with Daniel’s screenplay adaptation of his play Marion Bridge (directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld) which won the CITY TV best first feature award.

His second feature film, Wilby Wonderful, opened the Atlantic Film Festival in 2004 and went on to screen at festivals around the world including the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain where it was in competition. Daniel co-wrote and starred in Amnon Buchbinder’s Whole New Thing for which he won Best Screenplay and Best Performance by an Actor at the Atlantic Film Festival. As an actor, Daniel has appeared as a regular in the Don McKellar's cult series Twitch City and Jeremy Podeswa's films Eclipse and The Five Senses.

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