Mainstage 2010

Mainstage 2010 Adjudicator JERRY WASSERMAN

Our adjudicator for Mainstage 2010 is Jerry Wasserman, an actor, critic, Professor of English and Theatre, and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Jerry is an internationally known Canadian theatre scholar whose books include Modern Canadian Plays (in its 4th edition), Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology, Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice (co-edited with Sherrill Grace), and Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France. He also wrote and hosted Modern Canadian Theatre, a 12-hour TV series for the Knowledge Network.

Jerry has won UBC's Killam Teaching Prize and the Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance and Development in the Fine and Performing Arts. He reviewed theatre for many years for CBC radio and The Province newspaper, and currently reviews for his website, Vancouverplays.com.

A long-time member of Canadian Actors' Equity and ACTRA, and a charter member of the Union of BC Performers, Jerry has more than 200 professional credits for stage (the Arts Club, Playhouse and many other Vancouver companies) and screen, including principal roles in feature films Watchmen, Alive, Look Who's Talking, I-Robot, and continuing roles in numerous TV episodics: Smallville, Mysterious Ways, Beggars & Choosers, Cold Squad, The Crow, Madison, MANTIS, The Heights, Booker, Wiseguy and The New Adventures of Beans Baxter.