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The Message : rehearsal draft

File consists of correspondence, notes, production schedule for Tarragon Theatre, and scripts with handwritten annotations and post-it notes.

The Environmentalists

File consists of correspondence and a funding application for a short documentary film on bottle pickers.

Tarragon residency

File consists of correspondence and other records concerning Jason Sherman's work as playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre.

The Message : contract

File consists of correspondence and contracts regarding the production and performance of "The Message" at Tarragon Theatre.

Stratford contract

File consists of correspondence and a contract for production and performance of Jason Sherman's play, "Titus."

Titus Groan

File consists of an annotated script adapted from the novels "Titus Groan" and "Gormenghast" by Mervyn Peake.

Division

File consists of correspondence, notes, a contract, script, and series bible for a six-part political thriller based on the premise of Quebec independence.

Gormenghast : workshop

File consists of annotated scripts for a play based on the novels "Titus Groan" and "Gormenghast" by Mervyn Peake.

Jason Sherman fonds

  • F0191
  • Fonds
  • 1970-2019

Fonds consists of manuscript and typescript copies of Jason Sherman's work, copies of scripts with revisions, clippings and reviews pertaining to the production of his plays and radio and television work, personal and business correspondence, subject files and other material pertaining to his career as a writer as well as the operational files of "What" magazine.

Sherman, Jason, 1962-

'What' magazine files

The series consists of the administrative files of 'What', including financial statements and budgets, records of expenses, contracts, advertising information, clippings, correspondence, press releases and other material related to the ongoing operation of the magazine; submissions which includes typescript copies of stories sent to 'What', story ideas, writers' invoices, 'What' guidelines and writer's files which are a series of files arranged alphabetically which contain correspondence, stories and clippings pertaining to particular authors.

Writing and production files

The series consists of correspondence, research material, notes, contracts, and manuscript and typescript drafts of Sherman's plays including "A Place Like Pamela," "Three in the Back, Two in the Head," "The League of Nathans," "Patience," "To Cry is Not So," "What the Russian's Say," "Field," "The Merchant of Showboat," "Quirt," "Reading Hebron," "The Retreat" and "It's All True," "An Acre of Time," "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Message," and others. It also includes copies of scripts containing revisions made during the production of his plays, correspondence and financial records related to these productions, and programs and reviews of the rehearsals and performances of these works. The series also includes correspondence, story ideas and outlines, proposals, research material, contracts, and typescript draft scripts for radio and television programmes including "P.M.O.", "National Affairs", "The Hard Wood," "Graf," "ReGenesis," "Afghanada," "Rosendorf Quartet," "Galileo," "Badlands," "After the Orchard," "Between Two Worlds," "Jonestown," "Murdoch Mysteries," "Zone of Separation," "Wrecking Ball," "Abbatoir," "Flashpoint," "Mind," "Last Hope," "The Rules," "Invectus," "Spadina," "Colder in the Suburbs," "Ronde-et-vous," "Blueprint," and "The Public Health," among others. The records pertaining to the production "Bloodletting and miraculous cures," based on the critically-acclaimed novel by Vincent Lam, are particularly comprehensive and include drafts, notes, correspondence, research files, and digital recordings of dailies, director's, producer's, and various other cuts of individual episodes. Among the earlier writings represented in this series can be found copies of essays, articles and plays written by Sherman during his years in the Creative Writing Program at York University as well as typescript copies and clippings of several of his articles and reviews which have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Books in Canada and other publications.

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