MICHAEL BAWTREE was born in Australia, raised and educated in Britain, and came to Canada 55 years ago. In his long and varied career he has been a playwright, director, journalist, educator and actor, and an initiator of many new and original artistic projects from British Columbia to Nova Scotia – where he now lives. His creations show the breadth of his interests: a children's book about Nova Scotia's hero Joe Howe, a DVD about D-Day, a play about the Russian revolution, a book on Music Theatre, CDs of 'Three Men In A Boat' and 'A Christmas Carol', and the first volume of an autobiography - with a second volume to appear this year. Like No Other Press is now making these products generally available while supplies last.
After a blossoming career as an actor, at the Stratford Festival and elsewhere, Colin Bernhardt began to make his name throughout Canada as an inspired and much loved teacher of acting, voice and speech: first in Toronto, and subsequently at the Banff Centre and at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. For over twenty years he returned to Banff each year as a member of the Writers Studio faculty, working with hundreds of Canada's writers. Miriam Waddington praised him for his 'generosity of soul', and poet SMSteele described him as 'one of those people one thinks immortal.' ​