Rick Whelan | Ep. 111

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Rick Whelan is an award-winning playwright, journalist and screenwriter. He began his professional life as an actor, appearing as Charlie Brown in the U.S. national company of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and lured to Canada by his wife Cathy, who played Lucy in the touring production. He has worked with such luminaries as Maggie Smith, Brian Bedford, Jean Stapleton and Walter Pidgeon and spent four seasons as a member of the acting company at the Stratford Festival. His plays have been produced in theatres all across the U.S. and Canada, including at Stratford, the Barter Theatre (Virginia), the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville and Ottawa’s National Arts Centre. Rick sits down with Craig to discuss his career and his observations of the changes taking place in the land of his birth.

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