Jeffrey Round is a Canadian writer, director, playwright, publisher, and songwriter, who has encouraged the development of LGBT literature, particularly in Canada.
18 Facts About Jeffrey Round
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Jeffrey Round's published work includes literary fiction, plays, poetry and mystery novels.
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Jeffrey Round studied theatre, literature, psychology and music at Dalhousie University, obtaining a degree in English Literature.
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Jeffrey Round attended the Humber School for Writers, where he was mentored by writer DM Thomas, as well as Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's Film and Television program.
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From 1995 to 1998, Round directed Agatha Christie's long-running hit The Mousetrap during its twenty-seven record-breaking years at the Toronto Truck Theatre.
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In 1992 Jeffrey Round founded the multi-media theatre company Best Boys Productions with then-partner and gay activist John Davison.
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In 2005, Jeffrey Round was nominated for the KM Hunter Artists Award for Literature for "a body of work" that included fiction, poetry, drama, and literary criticism.
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Jeffrey Round is the author of two mystery series featuring gay male protagonists.
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Jeffrey Round served on the jury for the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a literary award for emerging LGBT writers in Canada, selecting Farzana Doctor as that year's winner.
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In 2015, with Michael Erickson of Glad Day Bookshop, Jeffrey Round co-founded and co-named the Naked Heart LGBT Festival of Words, which became Canada's most racially diverse literary event.
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Jeffrey Round has served as the Ontario Representative for The Writers' Union of Canada.
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Jeffrey Round has worked as a producer and writer for Alliance-Atlantis and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Also in 2014, Jeffrey Round published Vanished in Vallarta, the third Bradford Fairfax mystery, under his own publishing imprint, which in 2008 published the revised second edition of A Cage of Bones after retrieving the rights from GMP.
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In 2016, Jeffrey Round signed a three-book deal with Dundurn to continue his successful run of Dan Sharp mysteries.
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In 1992, Jeffrey Round co-founded Best Boys Productions, an experimental theatre company, together with John Davison.
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Jeffrey Round was in operation for five years and produced, among other works, Round's Right to Privacy Award-winning play, Zebra, about the murder of Toronto librarian Kenneth Zeller in High Park in 1985.
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Jeffrey Round wrote and directed the short film My Heart Belongs to Daddy in 2003.
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Jeffrey Round has released two documentary films, BLOSSOM: A Portrait of Lilac Cana and Driving With Rusty, a film about the late Rusty Ryan.