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Denis McGrath (born September 21, 1972) is a dual-citizen Canadian–American screenwriter and producer. Born in New York City, he currently resides and works in Toronto. McGrath started his career as a TV producer at the educational network TVOntario. In 1993, he was hired by Moses Znaimer and went to work at Toronto's groundbreaking Citytv station. As a producer on the Gemini Award-winning MediaTelevision, McGrath made the program on the intersection of digital culture and marketing one of the first in Canada to maintain an email address. Between 1993 and 1997, he did over five hundred stories on the first wave of dot.com entrepreneurs and visionaries, interviewing new media luminaries such as John Perry Barlow, Bruce Sterling, Peter Gabriel, and Nicholas Negroponte, as well as authors and TV types from P. J. O'Rourke to Chris Carter. In 1997, McGrath signed on as the first producer for Space: The Imagination Station, Canada's Sci-Fi channel. There, he pioneered several of the station's early program segments, including a recurring comedy segment called "Conspiracy Guy". He also created and hosted the show's late-night movie show, ''Spacebar''. In late 2000, McGrath left Space: The Imagination Station to become a resident of the Canadian Film Centre's ''Prime Time TV'' program. A graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University, McGrath taught writing part-time at his alma mater between 1994–2006. He is currently a regular contributor to the CBC Radio program ''Q'' and was elected to the Writers Guild of Canada Governing Council in April 2008. ==Television== In April 2008, McGrath won a Canadian Screenwriting Award for Best Dramatic Writing for the series he co-created, ''Across the River to Motor City''.〔http://www.wgc.ca/cscs_awards/2008csawinners.html〕 On August 26, 2008, ''Across the River to Motor City'' received seven Gemini Award nominations. McGrath was nominated for Best Dramatic Writing in a Miniseries, along with Bob Wertheimer and Jocelyn Cornforth.〔http://geminiawards.ca/gemini23/proglist.cfm?titid=13009〕 McGrath briefly worked as a story editor on the CTV series ''Flashpoint'', but left due to creative differences with the producers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Denis McGrath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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