Charles Tidler

Charles Tidler

Charles Tidler is an award-winning playwright, poet, novelist and spoken jazz artist. His plays Blind Dancers and Straight Ahead have been produced throughout Canada, in the US, and in London’s West End. Other plays include The Butcher’s Apron and Red Mango: a blues. His selected poems, Straw Things, and Tortoise Boy, a chamber play, were published in 2008. A debut novel Going to New Orleans was published in 2004.

Charles was born in Ohio and grew up in Indiana. He studied literature and philosophy with William Gass and Barriss Mills at Purdue University, before moving permanently to the West Coast of Canada as a Vietnam War draft resister in 1969.

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