Bryan Wade is an associate professor and the acting department head of UBC's Creative Writing Program. He has had numerous productions of his stage plays in various theatres across the country, including Factory Theatre Lab (Toronto), Toronto Free Theatre, Playwrights Workshop (Montreal), Theatre Calgary, and Vancouver's New Play Centre. He has also been a playwright-in-residence at Factory Theatre and the Blyth Festival along with being an invited artist at the Playwright's Colony at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Stratford Festival. Several of his plays have been published by Playwrights Press, including the anthology Blitzkrieg and Other Plays.