List of Canadian playwrights
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  • Marianne Ackerman
    Marianne Ackerman
    Marianne Letitia Ackerman is a Canadian novelist, playwright, and journalist. Piers' Desire, her third and most recent novel, was published in 2010.- Life and career :...

  • Evan Adams
    Evan Adams
    Evan Tlesla Àdams is a Canadian actor, playwright and medical doctor. A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films of Sherman Alexie, as Thomas Builds-the-Fire in the 1998 film Smoke Signals and...

  • André Alexis
    André Alexis
    André Alexis is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario....

  • Anne-Marie Alonzo
    Anne-Marie Alonzo
    Anne-Marie Alonzo, CM was a Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher.Born in Alexandria, Egypt, she immigrated to Quebec when she was twelve...

  • Hugh Abercrombie Anderson
    Hugh Abercrombie Anderson
    Captain Hugh Abercrombie Anderson MBE was a Canadian writer.Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Anderson was the son of politician John Anderson. Following and education at Bishop Feild College and Edinburgh Academy, the first few years of his career was at the family business in St...

  • Trey Anthony
    Trey Anthony
    Trey Anthony is a Canadian comedian and playwright.Born in England, Anthony is a regular on the Canadian comedy circuit. She began doing stand-up comedy during African Nubian Comedy Nights at Yuk-Yuk's....

  • Salvatore Antonio
    Salvatore Antonio
    Salvatore Antonio is a Canadian actor and playwright. He was born to Italian-immigrant parents...

  • Anthony Armstrong
    Anthony Armstrong (writer)
    George Anthony Armstrong Willis was an Anglo-Canadian writer, dramatist and essayist. He was the son of George Hughlings Armstrong Willis, R. N. and Adela Emma Temple Frere; although his parents were both English, he was born in Esquimalt, British Columbia as a consequence of his father's career...

  • Barry Avrich
    Barry Avrich
    Barry Michael Avrich is a Canadian film director, film producer, playwright, author, marketing executive and arts philanthropist...

  • Caroline Azar
    Caroline Azar
    Caroline Azar is a Canadian director, actor, and playwright of Lebanese Sephardic origin. She was the lead singer, keyboardist and co-lyricist/composer of the band Fifth Column.This experimental all-women punk band began in the mid 1980s in Toronto, Ontario...


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  • John Bemrose
    John Bemrose
    John Bemrose is a Canadian arts journalist, novelist, poet and playwright.His arts reviews have appeared in Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, the National Post and on CBC Radio....

  • Nicolas Billon
    Nicolas Billon
    Nicolas Billon is a Canadian playwright. He is best known for his plays The Elephant Song and Greenland.-Biography:Nicolas Billon was born in Ottawa but grew up mainly in Montréal....

  • Columpa Bobb
    Columpa Bobb
    Columpa C. Bobb is a Canadian photographer, actress, playwright, poet and teacher of Coastal Salish descent. She has been performing, writing plays, and teaching for 20 years....

  • Gail Bowen
    Gail Bowen
    Gail Dianne Bowen, née Bartholomew is a Canadian playwright and writer of mystery novels.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bowen was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo and the University of Saskatchewan...

  • Michel Marc Bouchard
    Michel Marc Bouchard
    Michel Marc Bouchard is a gay Canadian playwright.Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Ottawa. Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written some 25 plays...

  • George Boyd
  • Marie Brassard
    Marie Brassard
    Marie Brassard is a Quebec actress, author and theatre director living in Montreal. For many years her professional endeavors were closely linked with Robert Lepage...

  • Leanna Brodie
    Leanna Brodie
    Leanna Brodie is a Canadian actor and playwright.-Unpublished writings:*Invisible City. Broadcast by CBC Radio. 2001.*One Woman, One Child...

  • Daniel Brooks
    Daniel Brooks
    Daniel Brooks is a Canadian theatre director, actor and playwright. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.A highly regarded theatre maker in Toronto's "alternative" theatre scene, Daniel Brooks has a reputation for creating and directing cutting edge productions which combine fiercely intellectual...

  • Kenneth Brown
    Kenneth Brown (playwright)
    Kenneth Brown is a playwright, actor, director and producer who has been active in theatre since 1971. He is an author or co-author of the following plays:* Bombs!* Letters in Wartime...

  • Mark Brownell
    Mark Brownell
    Mark Brownell is a Toronto-based playwright and co-artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife, Sue Miner.He is the author of a number of plays, including Monsieur D'Eon is a Woman, which was nominated for a Governor General's Award...

  • Aaron Bushkowsky
    Aaron Bushkowsky
    Aaron Bushkowsky is an award-winning Canadian writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He writes in five different genres: poetry, drama, film, TV, and prose...


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  • Dave Carley
    Dave Carley
    Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright. He has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 400 productions, and have been produced across Canada and the United States, and in other countries...

  • Robert Chafe
    Robert Chafe
    Robert Chafe is a Canadian playwright. His play Afterimage won the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. He was previously nominated for the same award at the 2004 Governor General's Awards for his plays Butler's Marsh and Tempting Providence.He...

  • Normand Chaurette
  • Herménégilde Chiasson
    Herménégilde Chiasson
    -External links:* entry in *...

  • Sally Clark
    Sally Clark
    Sally Clark was a British solicitor who became the victim of an infamous miscarriage of justice when she was wrongly convicted of the murder of two of her sons in 1999...

  • George Elliott Clarke
    George Elliott Clarke
    George Elliott Clarke, OC is a Canadian poet and playwright. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian community of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as "Africadia".-Life:Born to William and Geraldine...

  • Marie Clements
    Marie Clements
    Marie Clements is a Métis playwright, performer, director, producer screenwriter, and founding artistic director of urban ink productions and fathom labs highway. Clements lives on Galiano Island British Columbia Canada...

  • Joy Coghill
    Joy Coghill
    Joy Coghill, O.C., is a Canadian actor, director, and writer.She and Myra Benson founded Canada's first children's theatre company, Holiday Theatre. In 1994, Coghill founded Western Gold, a theatre company for older professional actors. She holds honorary degrees from SFU and UBC...

  • Michael Cook
  • Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
    Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
    Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a Canadian actor and playwright. Her debut play, Scratch, is a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards...

  • Douglas Craven

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  • Jean-Marc Dalpé
    Jean-Marc Dalpé
    Jean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature....

  • Mazo de la Roche
    Mazo de la Roche
    Mazo de la Roche , born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.-Early life:...

  • Sandra Dempsey
    Sandra Dempsey
    Sandra Dempsey is an award-winning Canadian playwright.- External links :*...

  • Claudia Dey
    Claudia Dey
    Claudia Dey is a Canadian writer. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. She studied English Literature at McGill University and playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada.Dey's first novel, Stunt, was published by Coach House Books...

  • Chris Doty
    Chris Doty
    Chris Bourke Doty was a Canadian journalist, historian, award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and playwright, noted for his many contributions to the cultural life of his hometown of London, Ontario....

  • Clive Doucet
    Clive Doucet
    Clive Doucet is a Canadian writer and politician.Doucet was born in 1946 in London, England to an Acadian serviceman and an English war bride. Doucet grew up in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. He also spent some of his youth in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Doucet was raised as a Catholic,...

  • Marcel Dubé
    Marcel Dubé
    Marcel Dubé, OC is a Canadian playwright. He has produced over 300 works for radio, television and the stage...

  • Réjean Ducharme
    Réjean Ducharme
    Réjean Ducharme is a Quebec novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966...


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  • David Fennario
    David Fennario
    David William Fennario, né David Wiper is a Canadian playwright best known for Balconville , his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A committed socialist, Fennario has been a candidate for the Union des forces...

     (Balconville, Joe Beef)
  • Timothy Findley
    Timothy Findley
    Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.-Biography:...

     (Elizabeth Rex
    Elizabeth Rex
    Elizabeth Rex is a play by Timothy Findley.The plot involves a meeting between Queen Elizabeth I and an actor from Shakespeare's troupe who specializes in playing women's parts...

    , The Stillborn Lover)
  • Waawaate Fobister
    Waawaate Fobister
    Waawaate Fobister is a Canadian playwright and actor, whose debut work Agokwe won six Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2009. The play, which premiered at Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times theatre in 2008, is a gay-themed play which explores the burgeoning attraction between two aboriginal teenagers, one a...

     (Agokwe)
  • Denis Foon (The Short Tree and the Bird That Could Not Sing)
  • Norm Foster
    Norm Foster (playwright)
    Norm Foster is a Canadian playwright, considered to be Canada's most produced playwright. Foster discovered his talents as a playwright in Fredericton, New Brunswick, while he was working as host of a popular morning radio show. He accompanied a friend to an audition, and landed his first acting...

     (Sinners, The Affections of May)
  • Brad Fraser
    Brad Fraser
    Brad Fraser is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and internationally. Fraser's plays typically feature a harsh yet comical view of contemporary life in Canada, including frank depictions of...

     (Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
    Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
    Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love is a 1989 stage play written by Canadian playwright Brad Fraser. Set in Edmonton, Alberta, the comedy-drama follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" who try to learn the meaning of love — during a time in which...

    , Poor Super Man)
  • David French (Leaving Home
    Leaving Home
    Leaving Home is a drama in two acts by Canadian playwright David French."The work is the first presented of what has come to be known as the Mercer Plays and was responsible not only for introducing a unique Canadian voice to the world, but also for proving that Canadian playwrights could write...

    , Salt-Water Moon)

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  • Lorena Gale
    Lorena Gale
    Lorena Gale was a Canadian actress, director, and writer. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s...

  • C. E. Gatchalian
    C. E. Gatchalian
    C. E. Gatchalian is a Canadian playwright.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Filipino parents, Gatchalian holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre from the University of British Columbia. His play Motifs & Repetitions aired on Bravo! in 1997 and on the Knowledge in 1998. He was a finalist...

  • John MacLachlan Gray
    John Gray (playwright)
    John MacLachlan Gray, OC is a Canadian writer-composer-performer for stage, TV, film, radio and print...

  • Richard Greenblatt
    Richard Greenblatt (playwright)
    Richard Greenblatt is a Canadian playwright who currently lives in Toronto. He is best known for 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, which he wrote and performed with Ted Dykstra....

  • Linda Griffiths
    Linda Griffiths
    Linda Griffiths is a Canadian actor and playwright.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Griffiths studied at Dawson College, the National Theatre School for one year, and McGill University....

  • Sky Gilbert
    Sky Gilbert
    Schuyler Lee Gilbert, Jr. is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre in Toronto, Ontario at York University and the University of Toronto, before becoming co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times, a Toronto theatre...

  • Joanna Glass
    Joanna Glass
    Joanna McClelland Glass is a playwright. She became an American citizen in 1962.-Plays:*1972 Canadian Gothic*1972 American Modern*1975 Artichoke*1980 To Grandmother's House We Go...

  • Gratien Gélinas
    Gratien Gélinas
    Gratien Gélinas, was a Canadian author, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film....


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  • Elliott Hayes
    Elliott Hayes
    Elliott Hayes was a rising Canadian playwright when he was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver.Elliott Hayes was born in Stratford, Ontario to a theatrical family, the grandson of classical actor George Hayes and the son of John Sullivan Hayes, one of the original company members of the...

  • Michael Healey
    Michael Healey
    Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor. He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985. His acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman and George F...

  • Tomson Highway
    Tomson Highway
    Tomson Highway, CM is a celebrated Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is the author of the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S...

  • Karen Hines
    Karen Hines
    Karen Hines is a Canadian actress, writer and director. She is the artistic director and producer of "Keep Frozen: Pochsy Productions."Hines has appeared in several television series, including many of Ken Finkleman's satires such as The Newsroom, Foreign Objects, and Married Life for which she was...

  • Maureen Hunter
    Maureen Hunter
    Maureen Hunter is a Canadian playwright who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.She was born in Indian Head, Saskatchewan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. Transit of Venus was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and recorded by the BBC...


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  • Ann Lambert
    Ann Lambert
    Ann Lambert is a Montreal-based Canadian playwright. Her plays include Force of Circumstance, Parallel Lines, The Pilgrimage, Self Offense, Very Heaven, and The Assumption of Empire. She also teaches at Dawson College....

  • John Lazarus
    John Lazarus
    John Lazarus, is a Canadian playwright.He is author of Babel Rap, Dreaming and Duelling, The Late Blumer, Homework & Curtains, Genuine Fakes, The Trials of Eddy Haymour, Medea's Disgust, Village of Idiots, Rough Magic Meltdown and Secrets.Lazarus is also the author of many plays for young...

  • Walter Learning
    Walter Learning
    Walter John Learning is a Canadian theatre director, actor, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick.-Biography:Walter Learning was born in 1938 in the small village of Quidi Vidi in Newfoundland. Learning attended Bishop Feild College in St. John's and the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton,...

  • Mark Leiren-Young
    Mark Leiren-Young
    Mark Leiren-Young is a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, playwright and occasional performer in the comedy duo Local Anxiety. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.-Writing:...

  • Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...

  • Wendy Lill
    Wendy Lill
    Wendy Lill is an award-winning Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have been performed extensively in theatres across Canada as well as internationally in such countries as Scotland, Denmark and Germany...


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  • Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany....

  • Daniel MacIvor
    Daniel MacIvor
    Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....

  • Michael MacLennan
    Michael MacLennan
    Michael Lewis MacLennan is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter, and producer of television shows. He is a two-time finalist for Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award twice...

  • Stephen Massicotte
    Stephen Massicotte
    Stephen Massicotte is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and actor from Calgary, Alberta.-Plays:*The Jedi Handbooks trilogy**The Boy's Own Jedi Handbook**The Girls Strike Back...

  • Frank Moher
    Frank Moher
    Frank Moher is a Canadian playwright, director, and journalist.He was born in Edmonton, Alberta and lived in New York City and Calgary, Alberta...

  • Kim Morrissey
    Kim Morrissey
    Kim Morrissey is a Canadian poet and playwright who lives in London, England. Many of her works examine the role of women in nineteenth century culture, re-imagining the lives of historical figures. She is also part of the Comedy Collective UK...

  • Hannah Moscovitch
    Hannah Moscovitch
    Hannah Moscovitch is a Canadian playwright. She is best known for her plays East of Berlin, Essay, and The Russian Play.-Life and career:...

  • Daniel David Moses
    Daniel David Moses
    Daniel David Moses is a First Nations poet and playwright from Canada.Moses, of Delaware descent, was born in Ohsweken, Ontario, and raised on a farm on the Six Nations of the Grand River. He has an Honours BA from York University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Moses was the...

  • Wajdi Mouawad
    Wajdi Mouawad
    Wajdi Mouawad, OC is a Canadian writer, actor and director born in Lebanon in 1968. After living in France for a short time, he moved to Quebec in 1983.- Biography :He obtained his diploma from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1991....

  • Colleen Murphy
  • John Murrell
    John Murrell (playwright)
    John Murrell, OC, AOE is an American-born Canadian playwright.Born in Lubbock, Texas, Murrel moved to Alberta after graduating from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas with a BFA in 1968. He moved to Canada to avoid the draft, studying at the University of Calgary...


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  • James Reaney
    James Reaney
    James Crerar Reaney was an influential Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."...

  • Michael Redhill
    Michael Redhill
    Michael Redhill is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Redhill was raised in the metropolitan Toronto, Ontario area. He pursued one year of study at Indiana University, and then returned to Canada, completing his education at York University and the...

  • Vittorio Rossi
    Vittorio Rossi
    Vittorio Luciano Rossi is a playwright, actor and screenwriter born in Montréal, Canada. He grew up in the district of Ville Emard. Graduating from Concordia University in 1985 with a B.F.A. specializing in theatre performance, Rossi has earned the respect of the national theatre community with...

     (Little Blood Brother, Backstreets, The Chain, The Last Adam, Paradise By The River, A Carpenter's Trilogy)
  • George Ryga
    George Ryga
    George Ryga was a Canadian playwright and novelist.Ryga was born in Deep Creek near Athabasca, Alberta to poor Ukrainian immigrant parents. Unable to continue his schooling past grade six, he worked at a variety of jobs, including radio copywriter...


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  • Rick Salutin
    Rick Salutin
    Rick Salutin is a Canadian novelist, playwright, journalist, and critic and has been writing for more than forty years....

     (1837, Les Canadiens)
  • Djanet Sears
    Djanet Sears
    Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director. She was born in 1959 in England, to a Guyanese father and a Jamaican mother. Sears was raised in England and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan...

     (Harlem Duet, The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God)
  • Sandra Shamas
    Sandra Shamas
    Sandra Shamas is a Canadian comedic actress and writer.The oldest of three children born to Lebanese immigrants, Shamas left home at age 17 and moved to Toronto, where she held a variety of jobs before a workshop at The Second City inspired her to pursue a career in performing arts...

     (My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry)
  • Jason Sherman
    Jason Sherman
    Jason Sherman is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produced what, a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990...

     (The League of Nathans, Reading Hebron)
  • Jaspreet Singh
    Jaspreet Singh
    Jaspreet Singh is a Canadian writer.He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. Singh is the author of the novel Chef , and Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir, a collection of linked stories. He is a former research scientist who holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University...

     (Speak, Oppenheimer)
  • Ron Sparks
  • Kent Stetson
    Kent Stetson
    Kent Stetson is a Canadian playwright and novelist. He born in Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada and lives in Montreal, Quebec. Kent was appointed to the Order Of Canada in July 2007...

     (The Harps of God)
  • Allan Stratton
    Allan Stratton
    Allan Stratton is a Canadian playwright and novelist.Born in Stratford, Ontario, Stratton began his professional arts career began while he was still in high school, when James Reaney published his play The Rusting Heart in the literary magazine Alphabet. It was broadcast on CBC Radio in 1970. The...

     (Rexy!, 72 Under the O)

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  • Drew Hayden Taylor
    Drew Hayden Taylor
    Drew Hayden Taylor is a Canadian playwright, author and journalist.Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is part Ojibwa and part Caucasian. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Because I am half Ojibway half Caucasian, we will be called the occasions...

  • Vern Thiessen
    Vern Thiessen
    Vern Thiessen is a Canadian playwright.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Thiessen studied at the University of Winnipeg and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He later attended the University of Alberta, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree.Thiessen currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta and was...

  • Judith Thompson
    Judith Thompson
    Judith Clare Thompson, OC is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle." She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the...

  • Kristen Thomson
    Kristen Thomson
    Kristen Thomson is a Canadian actress and playwright.Thomson was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is known for her one-woman play I, Claudia, which was adapted to film in 2004...

     (I, Claudia)
  • Lise Tremblay
    Lise Tremblay
    Lise Tremblay is a French Canadian novelist.Tremblay was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Her first awards were presented at the Saguenay-Lac. St Jean book festival for her 1990 debut novel L'hiver de pluie...

  • Michel Tremblay
    Michel Tremblay
    Michel Tremblay, CQ is a Canadian novelist and playwright.Tremblay grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal, a French-speaking neighbourhood of Montreal, at the time of his birth a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect, something that would heavily influence his work...

     (Les Belles-sœurs, Albertine in Five Times)
  • Robert Tsonos
    Robert Tsonos
    Robert Tsonos is a Canadian actor, director, and playwright. He has acted in, or directed, over 50 productions across Canada, Japan, England, Venezuela, and Hong Kong during his 18 year career...


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  • Craig Walker
    Craig Walker
    Craig Stewart Walker is a Canadian writer, theatre director, actor and educator.Walker graduated from Bayview Secondary School and afterwards, began his career in the theatre as an actor with the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival and the National Arts Centre of Canada and other companies. ...

  • George F. Walker
    George F. Walker
    George F. Walker, CM is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. He is one of Canada's most prolific playwrights, and also one of the most widely produced Canadian dramatists both in Canada and internationally.-Early years:...

  • Agnes Walsh
    Agnes Walsh
    Agnes Walsh is a Canadian actor, poet, playwright and storyteller from Newfoundland.Walsh has won Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters awards for poetry as well as TickleAce poetry and ballad writing awards. Her poems have been translated into French and Portuguese...

  • David Watmough
    David Watmough
    David Arthur Watmough is a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.Watmaugh was born in London, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter David Arthur Watmough (born 17 August 1926) is a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.Watmaugh was...

  • Michael Wex
    Michael Wex
    Michael Wex is a Canadian novelist, playwright, translator, lecturer, performer, and author of books on language and literature. His specialty is Yiddish and his book Born to Kvetch was a surprise bestseller in 2005...

  • Lance Woolaver
    Lance Woolaver
    Lance Gerard Woolaver is a Canadian author, poet, playwright and director, whose works include World Without Shadows, Lord Strange, and Portia White:First You Dream"....

  • Rachel Wyatt
    Rachel Wyatt
    Rachel Wyatt is an English-Canadian dramatist.Wyatt emigrated to Canada with her family in 1957. She has written scores of plays for the BBC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...


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  • David Yee
    David Yee
    David Yee is a Canadian actor and playwright. His play lady in the red dress is a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.-References:...

     (lady in the red dress)
  • d'bi young
    D'bi Young
    D'bi Young is a Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, monodramatist, and educator, as well as a Dora-winning actor and playwright. Raised Debbie Young in Jamaica, she moved to Canada in 1993...

  • David Young
    David Young (Canadian playwright)
    David Samuel D'Arcy Young is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.Born in Oakville, Ontario, Young studied at the University of Western Ontario...

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