Terry Watada
Terry Watada is a Toronto writer with many productions and
publications to his credit. As a playwright, he has seen five of plays
achieve a mainstage production, starting with Dear Wes/Love Muriel during
the Earth Spirit Festival at Harbourfront in 1991. Perhaps his best known
is Vincent, a play about a Toronto family dealing with a schizophrenic
son. It has been remounted several times since its premiere in 1993.
Most notably it was produced at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and the
first Madness and Arts World Festival in Toronto (2003). His other plays
include Mukashi Banashi I and II (children’s plays), and Tale of a Mask.
The second Madness and the Arts World Festival invited Vincent to be
included in its program in Muenster, Germany, during May 2006. Tale of a
Mask has been expanded into a two-act play and is scheduled for production
by the fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company in 2008. Two other plays,
Obon: the Festival of the Dead (a story of Hiroshima, Vancouver and
Nanking) and Ballad of a Thin Man (a victim of schizophrenia caught in the
vortex of Brian’s Law), are currently in development.
His publications include Ten Thousand Views of Rain (poetry, Thistledown
Press 2001), Seeing the Invisible (a children’s biography, Umbrella Press
1998), Daruma Days (fiction, Ronsdale Press 1997), Bukkyo Tozen: a History
of Buddhism in Canada (history, HpF Press 1996) and A Thousand Homes
(poetry, Mercury Press 1995). His latest publication, a new book of poems
called Obon: the Festival of the Dead (Thistledown Press), was released in
the fall of 2006.
Selected Publications
Obon: The Festival of the Dead (Thistledown Press, 2006)
ISBN: 1 897235 14 3
Ten Thousand Views of Rain
(Thistledown Press, 2001)
ISBN: 1 894345 24 X
A Thousand Homes (Mercury Press, 1995)
ISBN: 1 55128 020 5
Daruma Days (Ronsdale Press, 1997) ISBN: 0 921870 43 4
Books in Print
Watada, Terry
Obon: The Festival of the Dead (Thistledown Press, 2006)
ISBN: 1 897235 14 3, $15.95
Ten Thousand Views of Rain (Thistledown Press, 2001)
ISBN: 1 894345 24 X, $15.95
A Thousand Homes (Mercury Press, 1995)
ISBN: 1 55128 020 5, $15.95
Daruma Days (Ronsdale Press, 1997) ISBN: 0 921870 43 4, $18.95
Bukkyo Tozen: Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in Canada (HpF Press and Toronto Buddhist Church, 1997) ISBN: 0 9699502 0 9, $25.00
Terry Watada, 6 Wildwood Cres, Toronto ON M4L 2K7, (416) 465-7688
tanea@sympatico.ca
