John Coulter

John Coulter (12 February 1888, Belfast – 1 December 1980, Toronto) was an Irish Canadian playwright and broadcaster.

Life He graduated from the University of Manchester. He taught school in Belfast and Dublin until 1919. He moved to London in 1920, where he wrote for BBC radio. In 1924 he became editor of The Ulster Review, and in 1927, managing editor of The New Adelphi.

He moved to Toronto in 1936, where he wrote for CBC radio, and he married Olive Clare Primrose, a poet and short story writer. They had two daughters, including actress Clare Coulter.

His papers are held at McMaster University.

Works

Autobiography In My Day: Memoirs, Willowdale, ON: Hounslow Press, 1980

Novels Turf Smoke, Ryerson Press, 1945

Biography Churchill, Ryerson Press, 1944

Plays Conochar, Broadcast BBC, 1934 The Folks In Brickfield Street, Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1937 The House In The Quiet Glen, Margaret Eaton Hall, Toronto, 1937 (Awarded Best Canadian Play at the Dominion Drama Festival, 1938.) Holy Manhattan, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, 1940 Pigs, Hart House Theatre, 1940 Christmas Comes But Once A Year, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto 1942 Transit Through Fire, University of Toronto at Convocation Hall, 1942 Mr Oblomoff, 1946 The Drums Are Out, Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1948 Riel, New Play Society, Toronto, 1950 Sleep My Pretty One, rehearsed reading St James Theatre, London, 1951 Dierdre, Macmillan Theatre, Toronto, 1965 The Crime Of Louis Riel, Dominion Drama Festival, London, Ontario 1966 The Trial Of Louis Riel, Saskatchewan House, Regina, 1967 Riel: a play: in two parts, Cromlech Press, 1972 A Capful Of Pennies, Central Library Theatre, Toronto 1967 The drums are out: a play in three acts, De Paul University, 1971 While I Live, 1971 Francois Bigot: A Rediscovery in Dramatic Form of the Fall of Quebec, Hounslow Press, Toronto, 1978 Living Together, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto 1980 Mr Kean Of Drury Lane, 1980

Opera librettos Transit Through Venus, 1942 Deirdre of the Sorrows, 1946