A Biography By And About (??) John Griffith Slavik: Erstwhile Philosophy Student And Miner Finds Meaning (*And Remuneration??) In Gold: The Play

Born in London, Ontario, bundled off to Vancouver at three days of age, and raised around the factories and farms of Kitchener, John Slavik inexplicably found himself at age 18 pretending to be a miner in Northwestern Ontario. Plumbing the depths of the earth, his soul and pretense, he took the logical leap into...Philosophy. It was whilst pretending to be an existentialist at Wilfrid Laurier University that Slavik finally realized he was acting. Since then, he has never looked back (nor forward, for that matter).

Slavik joyously portrayed the hapless knight, Sir Gawain, in the Clay and Paper workshop production of Gold in the summer of 2001, regardless - he says - of incurring every category of injury.

Apart from Sir Gawain, Slavik's other favourite roles have been the narrator in Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, Mr. Dussel in The Diary of Anne Frank, and the multiple character demands in The Story Chain.

John Slavik finds himself at present sharing a bungalow in Toronto's Little Portugal, with two other classical music fanatics.