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Darrin Hagen is an award-winning playwright, author and LGBTQ historian and activist.

Biography
Born and raised in Rocky Mountain House and moved to Edmonton in 1983/1982 (early 1908s).

His plays deal with gay issues in exuberant, comic style, including BitchSlap!

Theatre

 * Drag persona, Gloria Hole
 * Mid-1990s Edmonton Queen: Not a Riverboat Story to the Edmonton fringe - won a Sterling (Edmonton theatre) Award for outstanding new work
 * Hagen became the first openly gay host of a national TV series (Who’s On Top? for the Life Channel)
 * Hagen became the first openly gay host of a national TV series (Who’s On Top? for the Life Channel)

Guys in Disguise

 * Artistic Director of Guys in Disguise. In 1987 founded Guys in Disguise with his now-husband, Kevin Hendricks at the Flashback nightclub in Edmonton.
 * Since its inception at the in 1987, Guys In Disguise has become Canada’s most enduring Drag Theatre company, with over 36 productions to its credit.

Author
He is the author and playwright of The Edmonton Queen: The Final Voyage which won a Sterling Award and was published in book form by Brindle & Glass Publishing. The Edmonton Queen details the life and times of Edmonton’s Underground drag scene in the turbulent 80’s, and has been taught in universities across North America ever since its 1997 publication. Hagen has become a much-sought after speaker for classes that focus on Queer rights and gender diversity, and has donated his time for almost 20 years to speak to classes studying those themes.

Awards

 * 2005 Hagen was named as one of 100 Edmontonians of the Century
 * 2013 inducted into the Q hall of fame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Hall_of_Fame_Canada) for his contributions to the national LGBTQ community ( https://web.archive.org/web/20140325041458/http://www.qhalloffame.ca/index.php/inductees#inductee_19 )
 * 2017 named one of Alberta’s 25 most influential artists by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Residencies


 * 2018 EPL writer in residence
 * 2019 UofA Writer in Residence https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/faculty-news/2019/september/writing-to-the-future.html
 * 2021 Macewan writer in residence - https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/theatre/darrin-hagen-is-macewans-2021-writer-in-residency-his-mermaid-tail-on-display

Plays

Sources:

http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Hagen%2C%20Darrin - list his theatre work and awards

https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/a-gay-central-albertan-ahead-of-his-time/ - overview

Category:LGBT dramatists and playwrights20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights