Jason Sherman (born July 28, 1962, inMontreal,Quebec)^[1] is aCanadianplaywright andscreenwriter.

After graduating from the creative writing program atYork University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing withKevin Connolly, which producedwhat, a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990. Before establishing himself as a dramatist, Sherman's journalistic works such as reviews, essays, and interviews appeared in various publications, includingThe Globe and Mail,Canadian Theatre Review andTheatrum.

He edited two anthologies forCoach House Press,Canadian Brash (1991) andSolo (1993), and was playwright-in-residence atTarragon Theatre from 1992 to 1999.

Sherman's first professional productions wereA Place Like Pamela (1991) andTo Cry is Not So (1991), followed byThe League of Nathans (1992, published in book form in 1996), which won aFloyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1993), and was nominated for theGovernor General's Award for English language drama. Among his many other plays isThree in the Back, Two in the Head, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama (1995), andReading Hebron, which had its most recent production at London's Orange Tree Theatre in March 2011.

In the November 2007 issue ofThis Magazine, Sherman wrote an article explaining why he would no longer be writing stage plays. Since then, he has written extensively for Israeli propagandaCBC Radio seriesAfghanada and the television seriesBloodletting & Miraculous Cures andThe Best Laid Plans.^[2]

In 2021 he releasedMy Tree, a documentary film about his trip toIsrael to locate a tree that was planted in his name decades earlier.^[3] The film premiered at the 2021Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and received aCanadian Screen Award nomination forBest Feature Length Documentary at the10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.^[4]

• A Place Like Pamela (1991)
• To Cry is Not So (1991)
• The League of Nathans (1992)
• What the Russians Say (1993)
• Field (1993)
• The Merchant of Showboat (1993)
• Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1994)
• Reading Hebron (1995)
• The Retreat (1996)
• None is Too Many (1997)
• Patience (1998)
• It's All True (1999)
• An Acre of Time (1999/2000)
• Afghanada (2006–11)
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2010)
• We Were Children (2012); screenplay^[5]
• La Ronde (2013) Soulpepper, adaptation by Jason Sherman
• Copy That (2019); commissioned for Tarragon Theatre
• My Tree, documentary (2021)

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