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Michael Mackenzie works in film, theatre and technology policy. He has directed two feature films, both theatrically released in Canada. His plays have been staged in Europe and North America and variously published in English, French, German and Hungarian. He has a Ph.D from L’Institut d'Histoire et Sociopolitique de Science, Université de Montréal. Past academic appointments include Visiting Fellow at Princeton University Professor of Humanities at Vanier College,[1] and consultant at the United Nations.[2]
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Since 1990 Mackenzie's plays have been produced in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Spain, England, Nova Scotia, across Quebec, and in Toronto and Vancouver. His recent play on the 2008 financial crisis "Instructions to Any Future Government Wishing to Abolish Christmas" was a finalist for the 4th International STAGE Competition,[3] the French production toured through twenty-five theatres in Quebec (2015-2016) and played at the National Arts Centre of Canada (Ottawa).[4][5] The Portuguese translation, produced by A Companhia de Teatro do Algarve, toured fourteen theatres through Portugal and Spain (Spanish sur-titles)[6]
He has directed for the professional theatre in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and New York City.
He has worked with Robert Lepage's ex machina[7] company on a number of projects, starting as dramaturge for 'Elseneur' in 1997 and most recently on the English translation/adaptation of Lepage's 'Dragon Bleu'.[8] Mackenzie was dramaturge/consultant on three Cirque du Soleil shows including Ka, currently playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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Mackenzie's first feature film as a writer/director was The Baroness and the Pig, an adaptation of his play, and was produced by Media Principia. It was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival (2002), Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal 2002) where it was the closing film, Sundance Film Festival (2003) and San Francisco Film Festival (2003). It starred Patricia Clarkson and Colm Feore and was nominated for "Best Direction", "Best Cinematography" and "Best Editing" for the Quebec Jutra Awards (2003). It was theatrically released in Canada in 2003.
His second feature film as director was Adam's Wall. Co-written with Dana Schoel, it was produced by Couzin Films. It premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema (2008) and went on to a number of international festivals including Zlin IFF (Czech Rep.) 2009, Stony Brooke IFF (U.S.) 2009, Skip City IFF (Japan) 2009, Troia IFF, (Portugal) 2009. It was theatrically released in Canada in 2008.
The screenplay for Le Polygraphe 1996, directed by Robert Lepage and which Mackenzie co-wrote/adapted with Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard, was nominated for a Genie Award for best adapted screenplay.
Mackenzie's scholarly publications on technology policy and related topics include papers (a number co-written with Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio[9]) in scholarly journals and a book with the late Jorge Sabato.[10] His article on an economics for the anthropocene with Leonard Nakamura was recently published in The Los Angeles Review of Books[11]
Book, Monographs, Reports and Articles: (selected) scholarly/peer-review only.
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