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Carol Bolt Award
The Carol Bolt Award is an annual Canadian literary award. Presented by the Playwrights Guild of Canada, the award is bestowed for a theatrical play premiere by a PGC member, judged to be the year's best. The award is named in memory of Canadian playwright, Carol Bolt. Winners *2002 - Kent Stetson, ''The Harps of God'' *2003 - Daniel Goldfarb, ''Adam Baum and the Jew Movie'' *2004 - Florence Gibson MacDonald, Florence Gibson, ''Home Is My Road'' *2005 - Mieko Ouchi, ''The Red Priest (Eight Ways To Say Goodbye)'' *2006 - John Mighton, ''Half Life'' *2007 - Stephen Massicotte, ''The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion'' *2008 - Colleen Murphy (filmmaker), Colleen Murphy, ''The December Man'' *2009 - Vern Thiessen, ''Vimy'' *2010 - Michael Nathanson (director), Michael Nathanson, ''Talk'' *2011 - Anusree Roy, ''Brothel #9'' *2012 - Don Hannah, ''The Cave Painter'' *2013 - David Yee, ''carried away on the crest of a wave'' *2014 - Colleen Murphy (filmmaker), Colleen Murphy, ''Pig Girl'' *2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg Free Press
The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' (or WFP; founded as the ''Manitoba Free Press'') is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis. The WFP was founded in 1872, only two years after Manitoba had joined Confederation (1870), and predated Winnipeg's own incorporation (1873). The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' has since become the oldest newspaper in Western Canada that is still active. Though there is competition, primarily with the print daily tabloid ''Winnipeg Sun'', the WFP has the largest readership of any newspaper in the province and is regarded as the newspaper of record for Winnipeg and the rest of Manitoba. Timeline November 30, 1872: The ''Manitoba Free Press'' was launched by William Fisher Luxton and John A. Kenny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Rutherford
Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spelled ''"Aimée"''. People A–E * Amy Acker (born 1976), American actress * Amy Vera Ackman, also known as Mother Giovanni (1886–1966), Australian hospital administrator * Amy Adams (born 1974), American actress * Amy Alcott (born 1956) – American Hall of Fame golfer * Amy Archer-Gilligan, (1873–1962), American serial killer * Amy Beach (1867–1944), American composer and pianist * Amy Birnbaum (born 1975), American voice actress * Amy Bishop (born 1965), American professor and mass shooter * Amy Braverman, American statistician * Amy Brenneman (born 1964), American actress * Amy Bruckner (born 1991), American actress and singer * Amy Callaghan (born 1992), British politician * Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), British missionary to India * Amy Castle (born 1990), American actress and internet personality * Amy Cimorelli (born 1995), American singer * Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew MacKenzie
Matthew MacKenzie is a Canadian playwright and actor. He is most noted as a two-time Dora Mavor Moore Award winner for Outstanding New Play, Independent Theatre, winning in 2018 for ''Bears''J. Kelly Nestruck, "Jerusalem, Life After win big at Dora Mavor Moore Awards". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 26, 2018. and in 2023 for ''The First Métis Man of Odesa''. Early career A member of the Métis Nation of Alberta from Edmonton, he is a graduate of the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada.Anne Nothof"MacKenzie, Matthew" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', September 17, 2021. His early plays included ''Tick'', ''Me Happy'', ''The Particulars'' and ''In General''. In 2008, he launched his own theatre company, Pyretic Productions, in Edmonton. His play ''Sia'' won the Alberta Playwriting Competition in 2010, and received its premiere production at Toronto's Factory Theatre in 2012. His play ''Benefit'' was staged by Edmonton's Downstage Performance Society in 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Hennig
Kate Hennig is a Canadian actress and playwright, currently the associate artistic director of the Shaw Festival. Early life and education Hennig was born in Harlow, Ontario near London. Her father was a Lutheran minister. She and her family moved to Edmonton when Hennig was 7. Hennig attended York University briefly before dropping out. In 2002, Hennig was awarded a master's degree from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Career She was a shortlisted Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actress in a Play (Large Theatre) in 2003 for ''The Danish Play'', and won the Dora for Best Actress in a Musical in 2011 for ''Billy Elliot''. Although predominantly a stage actress, she also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in ''Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould'', and has appeared in the films ''Mrs. Winterbourne'' and '' The Claim'', and the television series ''Bomb Girls'', ''Saving Hope'' and '' L.M. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Codrington
Lisa Codrington is a Canadian character actress and playwright. She is most noted for her role as Gail on the comedy series ''Letterkenny'' and her theatrical plays ''Cast Iron'', which was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2006 Governor General's Awards, and ''Up the Garden Path'', which won the Carol Bolt Award in 2016. Early life and education She studied criminology and theatre at the University of Winnipeg"Woman's interest in people led to writing of Cast Iron". ''Brantford Expositor'', February 12, 2005. and acting at the Ryerson Theatre School."From lousy Winnipeg student to award-nominated dramatist". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', November 21, 2006. Career Codrington wrote ''Cast Iron'' as a one-woman show about her Barbadian heritage, and won a five-month workshop when she submitted a draft of the play to the Write from the Hop competition. The play premiered at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2005, with Alison Sealy-Smith in the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Tannahill
Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian author, playwright, filmmaker, and theatre director. His novels and plays have been translated into twelve languages, and honoured with a number of prizes including two Governor General's Literary Awards."Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction" '''', November 18, 2014. His debut novel, ''Liminal'', was honoured with France's 2021 Prix des Jeunes Libraires. His second novel, ''The Listeners'' was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 2021 |
Pig Girl
''Pig Girl'', first produced in November 2013 and then published in November 2015, is a play by Colleen Murphy that draws upon the events of the 2007 Pickton case surrounding the murders of Indigenous women by Port Coquitlam pig farmer Robert Pickton. The play tells the stories of the fictionalized characters Dying Girl, Killer, Sister, and Police Officer in order to illuminate the Canadian issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women. ''Pig Girl'' was awarded both a Carol Bolt Award and a Governor General's Award. Title and Plot As opposed to narratives that concentrate on the victimization of murdered Indigenous women, Murphy aimed to portray their voices, heroism, and resistance, along with their societal marginalization. The play's title, ''Pig Girl'', is described by the author as ironic and provocative, as the murdered women were treated like animals. Set in the barn of the pig farm, each of ''Pig Girl''’s four fictionalized characters — The Dying Woman, The Killer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Yee
David Yee is a Canadian actor and playwright. His play ''lady in the red dress'' was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. His play ''carried away on the crest of a wave'' won this award at the 2015 Governor General's Awards. Early life Yee was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is of Chinese and Scottish ancestry. He graduated from the University of Toronto Mississauga theatre and drama studies program in 2000. Intending to pursue acting he focused instead on play writing. Career His play ''lady in the red dress'' was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. In 2011, his play ''paper Series'' was shortlisted for the 2011 Carol Bolt Award. He won the 2013 Carol Bolt Award for Best Work Premiered by a Playwrights Guild of Canada member for his play ''carried away on the crest of a wave''. The play debu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Hannah
Don Hannah (born in Shediac, New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play, ''The Wedding Script''. He has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage Company, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival, and was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. His other residencies include the University of New Brunswick, the Yukon Public Library, and Green College, University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of PARC, the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, and for five years was associate dramaturg at the Banff Centre 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. In 2012 his play ''The Cave Painter'' received the Carol Bolt award. His latest play, ''Resident Aliens'', will debut at Theatre New Brunswick in 2022. Works Plays Full Length * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's " newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, '' The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of ''The Toronto Mail'' and the ''Toronto Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anusree Roy
Anusree Roy is a Canadian award-winning writer of plays, television, film and libretto. She is also an actress.Roy, Anusree Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, 10 November 2011. Education Roy was born in and holds a B.A in theatre from and an M.A from the . Roy emigrated to Canada with her family at age 17.Television work She ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
