Guy Rex Rodgers
Advisory Board Member
A graduate of the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada, Guy Rex Rodgers has worked in film and television, and specialized in writing large-scale multimedia productions for museums and special events across Canada, as well as the US, Europe and the Middle East. He performs music as a guitarist, most recently as part of Tim Brady’s 100 Guitars projects.
A long-time arts activist, Guy Rex Rodgers was co-founder of the Quebec Drama Federation (QDF) and the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF), was a member of the founding board of le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), and was founding Executive Director of the English-Language Arts Network (ELAN) in 2004. In 2015 he was appointed a companion in l’Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Since leaving ELAN in 2020 Guy Rex Rodgers has produced and directed eight documentary films about Anglos in Quebec in collaboration with MAtv, the National Film Board and CBC. For the past 2 years he has toured the feature length documentary What We Choose to Remember to more than 40 communities around Quebec. (On YouTube https://whatwechoosetoremember.ca/) Guy Rex Rodgers also writes a monthly column about culture, politics and history for The Montrealer magazine.