Education
Born in Lubbock, Texas, Murrell moved to Alberta after graduating from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1968.
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John Murrell
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He moved to Canada to avoid the draft, studying at the University of Calgary. for which he was the subject of an National Film Board of Canada animated short by Cam Christiansen entitled The Real Place. Murrell also translated some Russian and French works. Haydn"s Head (1974)
Power in the Blood (1975)
Waiting for the Parade (1977)
Memoir (1977)
Farther West (1982)
New World (1984)
October (1988)
Democracy (1991)
The Faraway Nearby (1994)
Death in New Orleans (1998)
Taking Shakespeare (2012)
Mandragola (after Machiavelli) (1978)
Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov) (1978)
Bajazet (after Racine) (1979)
The Seagull (after Chekhov) (1980)
Divorcons (after Sardou) (1983)
The Master Builder (after Ibsen) (1983)
Oedipus the King (after Sophocles) (1988)
The Four Lives of Marie (after Carole Frechette) (1996)
The Cherry Orchard (after Chekhov) (1998)
The Odyssey (after Homer) (2001)
The Doll House (after Ibsen) (2001)
The Human Voice (after Jean Cocteau) (2004).
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Canada
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Officer of the Order of Canada; Governor General’s Performing Arts Award Order of Excellence; the Governor General's Performing Arts Award; Order of Canada
The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.