Born in Canada, Jack Winter attended McGill University followed by the University of Toronto for a PhD in English literature. From there he held many university teaching positions in English literature, modern theater, and creative writing across Canada.
From 1961 to 1967 he was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions (Toronto, Ontario) where he wrote six stage plays: Hey Rube! (1961), They'll Make Peace (1962), Before Compiegne (1963), The Mechanic (1964), The Death of Woyzeck (1965), and The Golem of Venice (1967).
For his second tenure (1974?76) he was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions where he wrote five more stage plays: Mr. Pickwick (1972) Letters from the Earth (1973), Ten Lost Years (1974), You Can’t Get Here from There (1975), and Summer Seventy-Six (or Olympics ’76) (1976).
His work has been broadcast around the globe on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and DeutschlandRadio.
His stage plays have been published and distributed by the Playwrights Union of Canada. In addition, he has published Party Day (Playwrights' Co-op); Ten Lost Years in Canadian Theatre Review and in The CTR Anthology (University of Toronto Press); five books of poetry: Scales (McGill University), The Island (Fiddlehead Press), Misplaced Persons (Peterloo Poets), The Ballad of Bladud (Bath City Press), and Nomad’s Land (Bath City Press); a literary memoir The Tallis Bag (Oberon Press); and an anthology My TWP Plays (Talonbooks).
His poems, plays, fiction, and articles have been published and featured in magazines and newspapers around the world, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Telegram, Performing Arts In Canada, Canadian Jewish Outlook, The Guardian, The Observer, Poetry Scotland, Canadian Literature, and Poetry Review.
His many awards and recognition for his work include the Toronto Telegram Theatre Award for Best New Canadian Play; the Canadian Film Award (Golden Etrog: Genie) for Best Documentary Film; an Academy Award nomination (Oscar) for Best Short Subject (Hollywood, California); the Visiting Writer's Fellowship of the Eastern Arts Association; and The Arts Council of Great Britain Creative Writing Fellowship
He currently resides in Brighton and Hove, England.
