Don Hannah is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 playwright and novelist. He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards were a Canadian literary award, given to Canadian plays produced by any professional Canadian theatre company, and having at least ten performances in the Toronto area....

 for his first play, The Wedding Script.

He has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre

Tarragon Theatre

The Tarragon Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Canada, and one of the main centers for contemporary playwriting in the country. Located near Casa Loma, the theatre was founded by Bill and Jane Glassco in 1970. Bill was the Artistic Director from 1971 to 1982. In 1982, Urjo Kareda took over as...

, the Canadian Stage Company, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival, and was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta

University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...

. His other residencies include the University of New Brunswick

University of New Brunswick

The University of New Brunswick is a Canadian university located in the province of New Brunswick. UNB is the oldest English language university in Canada and among the first public universities in North America. The university has two main campuses: the original campus founded in 1785 in...

, the Yukon Public Library, and Green College, University of British Columbia

Green College, University of British Columbia

Green College is a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and a community of scholars at the University of British Columbia founded by Cecil Howard Green and Ida Green....

. He is a founding member of PARC, the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, and for five years was associate dramaturg at the Banff Centre

Banff Centre

The Banff Centre, formerly known as The Banff Centre for Continuing Education, is an arts, cultural, and educational institution and conference complex located in Banff, Alberta...

 Playwrights Colony. He had also worked as a dramaturg for Vancouver's Playwrights Theatre Centre. His novel "Ragged Islands" won the Thomas Head Raddall Award

Thomas Head Raddall Award

The Thomas Head Raddall Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada and the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces...

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Full Length

• The Wedding Script (1986)
• Rubber Dolly (1986)
• In the Lobster Capital of the World (1988)
• Love Jive (1989) with composer David Sereda
• Siren Song (1990) with composer David Sereda
• The Wooden Hill (1994)
• Running Far Back (1994)
• Fathers and Sons (1998)
• While We're Young (2008)
• There is a Land of Pure Delight (2008)
• The Woodcutter (2010)
• The Cave Painter (2011)

Shorts

• Firing Francine (1985)
• Undersea (1988)
• The Wall in the Garden (1989)
• Wedlock (1990)