Philip Dinn

Philip Dinn is a stage and screen Actor-Writer and Musician living in Halifax. Philip is the Artistic Director of Jack Five Oh Theatre Productions and has written and co-written some 25 main stage theatre productions and productions for young audiences in the past 25 years.

As a founding member of the internationally accliamed Folk Band FIGGY DUFF, Philip has written and arranged the collected Folk Songs of Newfoundland material for the band and has toured extensively in Canada and the UK. Publications include Stars in the Sky Morning and Peg Bearskin. Philip won the Silver Medal at the New York Awards for Radio and Television.

Selected list of Publications

Peg Bearskin: A Traditional Newfoundland Tale. Adapted by Philip Dinn and Andy Jones. Illustrated by Elly Cohen. Running the Goat, Books & Broadsides, 2004. ISBN 0-9688712-7-5.
         Named one of the 2004 White Ravens by the International Youth Library of Munich, Germany.
         Shortlisted for 2005 Hackmatack Award

"There's magic in this book - in the compelling logic that drives the fairy tale, in the sly humour, in the gorgeous linocuts that illustrate the story; and most of all, there's magic in the voice fo generations of Newfoundlanders that comes through the language used to tell it. Peg Bearskin is a little treasure." -- Michael Crummey

You can send mail to Philip Dinn
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia