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Joel Thomas Hynes

Joel Thomas Hynes is a multidisciplinary artist from Calvert, Newfoundland.

Hynes is currently based out of Toronto and is in the midst of releasing an album of original music and developing a feature film to direct.

He is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including Down to the Dirt (adapted to screen in 2008), Right Away Monday, Straight Razor Days, God Help Thee: A Manifesto and Say Nothing Saw Wood (which was recently adapted, by Hynes, to the big screen under the title Cast No Shadow and won numerous awards including four Canadian Screen Award Nominations).

His most recent novel We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night was longlisted for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize and won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction.

JTH has also written and directed a couple of award winning short films – Little Man and Clipper Gold and wrote and directed several shorts during a recent residency at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.

Hynes has also been working as an actor for almost twenty years and continues to perform lead and principles roles in both television and film, including shows such as Orphan Black, Frontier, Mary Kills People, Republic of Doyle, Eye Witness, Book of Negroes, Hatching Matching and Dispatching and films such as Hunting Pignut, Cast No Shadow, Crackie, Down to the Dirt, and First Round Down.

Hynes is the creator, an executive producer and lead actor for the new CBC comedy series Little Dog, due for broadcast March 1st, 2018.

Joel Thomas Hynes on Radio Venice

Radio Venice S07.E11 – February 18, 2018

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