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OTTAWA, ON - Daniel MacIvor has won the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for I Still Love You: Five Plays by Daniel MacIvor which includes: A Beautiful View, Never Swim Alone, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, In on It.

Also nominated were Marjorie Chan's China Doll, Richard Sanger's Two Words for Snow, Don Druick's Through the Eyes and John Mighton's Half Life.

MacIvor Bio: Daniel MacIvor has written and directed numerous award-winning plays, including You Are Here, How It Works and A Beautiful View. Never Swim Alone won the award for excellence at the New York Fringe (1998) and In On It a Village Voice Obie Award (2002). He is a five-time GG drama nominee, last year for Cul-de-sac. He is artistic director of the Toronto theatre company da da kamera. His film adaptation of his play Marion Bridge, also a GG nominee, won the CITY TV Best First Feature Award. His second feature, Wilby Wonderful, was released in 2004. Born in Cape Breton, Daniel MacIvor now lives in Halifax.

LIVERPOOL, N.S.- Under the big tent we will have a party!

The 2006 Robert Merritt Awards were held at Alderney Landing Theatre on Monday, March 27th.  Here is a list of this year's recipients:

Outstanding Production
The Diary of Anne Frank
Neptune Theatre

Outstanding Performance Lead Actor
Kevin Curran
Gay White Trash