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David James Brock is a playwright, poet, and librettist whose plays and operas have been performed in cities across Canada, the US, and the UK.

He is the winner of the 2011 Herman Voaden Canadian National Playwriting Award for his play Wet.

Brock is the author of two poetry collections, Everyone is CO2 & Ten-Headed Alien both released by Wolsak & Wynn. Most recently, his play A Million Billion Pieces premiered as part of Young People’s Theatre 2019/2020 season.

In 2022, his play A Million Billion Pieces will be published with Playwrights Canada Press.

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Gilgamesh: my opera filming at the University of Notre Dame

I was lucky enough to attend the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana over a recent weekend to be a part of the filming for my adaptation of Gilgamesh, an operatic song cycle I wrote with composer J. Scott Brubacher. The libretto, which was written ages ago and published in my first collection Everyone is CO2 has been magically sung by baritone Stephen Lancaster for a couple of years, b

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