Henry Eric Beissel (12 April 1929 – 9 January 2025) was a Canadian writer and editor who published 24 volumes of poetry, six books of plays, a non-fiction book on Canada, two anthologies of plays intended for use in high schools, and numerous essays and pieces of short fiction.
[1] Henry Beissel was born in Cologne, Germany, and survived the Second World War as a youth.
[3] Beissel's internationally successful Inuk and the Sun ("a mythic masterpiece", Sherrill Grace) premiered at the Stratford Festival of Canada in 1973.
This was followed by a U.S. premiere in 1977 at The Other Theatre in Chicago's Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center with a musical score by Douglas L. Lieberman.
The Other Theatre also commissioned Under Coyote's Eye and performed it at the Field Museum of Natural History.