David Di Giovanni
Canadian theatre director and playwright
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David Di Giovanni is a Canadian theatre director and playwright, most noted as co-creator with Amanda Cordner of the stage play Body So Fluorescent.[1]
Di Giovanni began his career as an actor.[2] He appeared in early productions of Body So Fluorescent as Gary,[3] although it later evolved into a solo show in which Cordner played all characters, including Gary, herself.[4]
Body So Fluorescent was later adapted as a short film, for which Di Giovanni won the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2020 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.[5] After it was published in book form in 2023, Cordner and Di Giovanni received a nomination for that year's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT literature.[6]
Di Giovanni and Cordner also later collaborated on Wring the Roses.[7]
Di Giovanni, who is out as gay, works as manager of cultural services for the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library.[8]