Complete List Of Plays By Norm Foster
I have become a huge fan of the plays of Norm Foster as regular readers of OntarioStage may have noticed. I am always eager to add to the number of Norm Foster plays that I have seen.
Norm Foster is often described as Canada’s Neil Simon. It’s not quite an apples to apples comparison in my opinion, but it gives a hint to non-Canadians as to his prominence and popularity. He is also, by a wide margin, Canada’s most prolific playwright.
One day, in an idle moment, I turned to the Internet to see just how many plays this master had produced and was amazed to discover that no source seemed to have a complete list. Not Wikipedia. Not the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Not even Foster’s own site.
So I began to cobble together my own list, drawing on multiple sources, but I encountered the usual stumbling blocks. Some places listed year of composition, others the year in which a play was first produced, others the year it was published in book form, and there were contradictions between and among various sources. I was stymied.
Now, thanks to the generous help of Emily Oriold, Artistic Director of the Foster Festival, and Meaghan Denomme, the Literary Manager at Norm Foster’s agency I am pleased to publish what I believe is an accurate list, by year of first production, of all the plays written by Norm Foster.
Spoiler Alert: There are 82 of them. I hope to add to this list as more works flow from his seemingly infinite imagination.
A Chronological List of Plays By Norm Foster
1983 – Sinners
1984 – The Melville Boys
1986 – Windfall
1987 – My Darling Judith
1988 – Bravado
1989 – Opening Night
1990 – The Affections of May
1991 – The Motor Trade
1992 – Wrong for Each Other
1994 – The Long Weekend
1994 – The Sitter
1996 – Office Hours
1996 – Sadie Flynn Comes to Big Oak
1997 – Here on the Flight Path
1997 – Jupiter in July
1998 – A Foggy Day
1998 – Drinking Alone
1998 – Ethan Claymore’s Christmas
1998 – The Foursome
1998 – The Christmas Tree
1999 – Louis and Dave
2000 – Maggie’s Getting Married
2000 – Office Hours – six one acts
2000 – Small Time
2001 – Jasper Station w/ Steve Thomas, music
2001 – Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun
2002 – The Love List
2002 – Self-Help
2002 – Race Day w/ Steve Thomas, music
2003 – Storm Warning
2004 – Outlaw
2005 – Looking
2005 – Sitting Pretty, w/ Steve Thomas, music
2006 – Jenny’s House of Joy
2006 – Mending Fences
2006 – Bedtime Stories
2006 – Dear Santa
2007 – One Moment (with Steve Thomas, music)
2008 – Old Love
2008 – One-Actmanship (My Narrator & The Death of Me)
2008 – Bob’s Your Elf
2009 – Skin Flick
2009 – The Last Resort (with Leslie Arden, music)
2009 – Under the Bright Sun
2010 – Sitting Pretty (with Steve Thomas, music)
2011 – Ned Durango (with Leslie Arden) *also exists as a standalone play without music*
2012 – Mrs. Parliament’s Night Out
2012 – Hilda’s Yard
2012 – On a First Name Basis
2013 – The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby
2013 – A Snow White Christmas
2014 – The Gentleman Clothier
2015 – The Ladies Foursome
2016 – Halfway There
2016 – For Life (with Michael Doherty, music)
2017 – Lunenberg
2017 – Screwball Comedy
2018 – Come Down From Up River
2018 – Renovations for Six
2018 – Jonas and Barry in the Home
2019 – The Writer
2019 – Beside Myself, w/ Steve Thomas, music
2019 – Aunt Agnes for Christmas *renamed Christmas with Auntie Pearl*
2021 – Widow Wonderland
2021 – My Hero
2022 – 1812
2022 – A Pack of Thieves
2022 – Doris and Ivy in the Home
2022 – They’re Found in Trees
2022 – A Clean Brush
2022 – Wildly Romantic
2023 – Danny and Delilah
2023 – My Hero
2023 – Whit’s End
2023 – Office Christmas Party
2024 – Those Movies
2024 – Lakefront
2024 – Ship to Shore
2025 – A Woman’s Love List
2025 – Bridge Narrows
2025 – I’m In Love With Your Sister
2025 – The Stakeout
[image: Gary Goddard Agency]
