Gordon GordeyGordon 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 Yasnowskii's internment at Kauskasing Camp being unjustly branded as an "Enemy Alien" in Canada's WWI Internment Operations. "Gordon Gordey, Director and Dancemaker: Creating Original Ukrainian Dance in Canada-An Autobiographical Reflection of a 40-Year Creative Journey with The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada" was published in Collected Papers on Ukrainian Life in Western Canada. (Ostroh Academy Press). Gordey produced the first English translation of The People's Malakhii, a play by Ukraine's first modern dramatist, Mykola Kulish, who was exiled and perished as a victim of Stalin'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. Read More Read Less