Lorne Elliott is perhaps best known as the host for ten years of CBC Radio’s Madly Off In All Directions and is a musician, comedian, playwright and novelist. He has written and performed in numerous plays and shows in various media. His latest musical play, Jamie Rowsell Lives, won the 2012 Playwrights Guild of Canada Award for Best Musical. He is the author of a novella, The Fixer-Upper, and a novel Beach Reading, shortlisted for a Quebec Writers’ Federation award.