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Occupation
  
playwright

Role
  
Playwright

Name
  
Robert Chafe


Period
  
2000s-present

Nationality
  
Canadian

Movies
  
Above and Beyond

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Notable works
  
Afterimage, Butler's Marsh, Tempting Providence

Education
  
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Books
  
Butler's Marsh, Oil and Water, Tempting Providence, Emptygirl

Awards
  
Governor General's Award for English-language drama

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Robert Chafe (born 1971) is a Canadian playwright, whose play Afterimage won the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. He was previously nominated for the same award at the 2004 Governor General's Awards for his plays Butler's Marsh and Tempting Providence.

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His other plays have included Place of First Light (cowritten with Sean Panting), Charismatic Death Scenes, Belly Up, Emptygirl, Oil and Water, Isle des Demons, Lemons, One Foot Wet, Signals, Under Wraps and Vive La Rose. He has won numerous Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards, and was named 1998 Emerging Artist of the Year by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.

Chafe has also acted, both on stage and in the 2006 television miniseries Above and Beyond.

He is openly gay.

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References

Robert Chafe Wikipedia