Written and Performed by…………………………………………………….Daniel Thau-Eleff
Direction and Dramaturgy by………………………………………..Chris Gerrard-Pinker
With Assistance from……………………………………………………………Arne MacPherson
Media Design………………………………………………………………………….Steven Hunnie
Publicity Design……………………………………………………………………..Andreas Kahre
Photography……………………………………………………………………………..Leif Norman
In this personal-political monologue, playwright and activist Daniel Thau-Eleff wrestles with the question of evil: Adolf Eichmann and the Nazis, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and a couple whose relationship becomes abusive. Why do good people do bad things?
“A beautiful tapestry of hope and hopelessness” 4 stars – CBC
“Ambitious, political, intense” 4 stars – Winnipeg Free Press
“Disturbing and funny, engaging both emotionally and intellectually” – Winnipeg Jewish Review
“Take this opportunity to see him” – Mooney on Theatre
Good People Bad Things premiered in Winnipeg in 2012 and has since been presented at Toronto’s SummerWorks (2013), at the Impact! Festival in Kitchener/Waterloo (2013), Prismatic Festival in Dartmouth/Halifax (2014), the Doing Jewish Off the Grid conference (Toronto, 2014), in the Winnipeg Fringe (2013), at Brandon University (2016), as a Theatre Projects Manitoba Salon (2016), in Vancouver and Charlottetown (2013).
Good People Bad Things was produced and developed with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Playwrights Guild of Canada, Assiniboine Credit Union, CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg, the Joseph Zuken Memorial Association and many individual supporters.
GPBT Poster, photo by Leif Norman, design by Andreas Kahre 
Daniel Thau-Eleff in reading of Good People Bad Things Photo by Janet Shum 
Daniel Thau-Eleff in Good People Bad Things, photo by Leif Norman