A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Sheffield, England
Prior to relocating to Nova Scotia in 1996 Ed worked extensively in British theatre and broadcasting as Associate Director of the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, Artistic Director of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (both major regional theatres), and Features Editor and Producer for BBC Radio 4. In Wolfville (NS) Ed and his wife, Shelley Thompson, founded WILLPOWER, an independent theatre company creating and producing new work in Halifax and beyond, including The Strange Case Of Jekyll & Hyde, The Afterlife Of George Cartwright (from John Steffler’s novel), Love On Main (from Schnitzler’s Reigen), Shakespeare Unplugged, and Private Views (a collaboration with visual artist Holly Carr and The Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia) At Halifax’s Neptune Theatre, directed Travels With My Aunt and Closer; at the Chester Playhouse (NS), Fields of Crimson. Most recently he was Artistic Producer of Festival Antigonish (NS) for twelve seasons, programming, creating, directing and acting. Writing credits for CBC Radio Drama include the series: Daddy’s Home, Now You See Her, Y-Soccer, and two episodes of Backbencher. For CBC TV – screenplay Gentle Sinners; for Vision TV - The Prince & The Grail (Documentary). For BBC Radio - The Double Man, a solo show written for Mark Wing-Davey as W.H. Auden, originally produced at the Liverpool Playhouse and The Bush Theatre, London, revived in 2017 at the Public Theatre NYC. MOST RECENTLY Dramaturge/Director – Unconfined by Elizabeth Richardson at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Actor - Duke of Cornwall, staged reading of King Lear directed by Leon Major – Senior in Zuppa Theatre’s This Is Nowhere; Prosecutor in Diggstown (CBC TV) – Dr Frost in Chapelwaite (Epix). AWARDS Best Screenplay ACTRA Award for Gentle Sinners (CBC), CINO DEL DUCCA Award, for Best TV Direction for All The Days Of My Life (CBC), SONY RADIO Award, Best Feature, for Dear Miss Pym Dear Mr Larkin (BBC), Theatre Nova Scotia MERRITT Award nomination, Best Supporting Actor for Mr Noreen in Geometry In Venice.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.