Gordon Gordey

Gordon Gordey is an internationally recognized professional arts stage director, producer, folk dance researcher, and librettist/writer.
In 2023 he translated and published Pylyp Yasnowskii, Internee No. 1198, a diary of Yasnowskiiโ€™s internment at Kapuskasing Camp being unjustly branded as an โ€œEnemy Alienโ€ in Canadaโ€™s WWI Internment Operations.
โ€œGordon Gordey, Director and Dancemaker: Creating Original Ukrainian Dance in Canadaโ€”An Autobiographical Reflection of a 40-Year Creative Journey with The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canadaโ€ was published in Collected Papers on Ukrainian Life in Western Canada. (Ostroh Academy Press). Gordey produced the first English translation of The Peopleโ€™s Malakhii, a play by Ukraineโ€™s first modern dramatist, Mykola Kulish, who was exiled and perished as a victim of Stalinโ€™s purges. Gordey taught acting, directing, and contemporary drama at Dalhousie and MacEwan universities for 40 years. He is recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the development of theater in Alberta in Theatre 100: Celebrating 100 Theatre Practitioners over 100 Years.