Daniel MacIvor born 23 July 1962 is a Canadian actor playwright theatre director and film director He was born in Sydney Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax and then at George Brown College in Toronto Ontario MacIvor started the theatre company da da kamera in Toronto in residence at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre for whom he has written directed and acted He is now one of Canadas best known playwrights His plays include Never Swim Alone This is a Play Monster Marion Bridge You are Here Culdesac and A Beautiful View Five of MacIvors plays were published as I Still Love You in 2006 in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera Never Swim Alone The Soldier Dreams You Are Here In on It and A Beautiful View and won MacIvor a coveted Governor Generals Award for Drama Recently MacIvor has written cowritten and directed several independent films which are usually made in his home province of Nova Scotia They include Past Perfect Marion Bridge Whole New Thing and Wilby Wonderful His appearances include The Five Senses Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel MacIvor licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia