Catherine Banks is a
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
playwright. She is a two-time winner of the
Governor General's Award for English-language drama
The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided.
Because the awar ...
, in
2008
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for ''Bone Cage'' and in
2012
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for ''It Is Solved By Walking''.
She resides in
Sambro,
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
, a rural community within the
Halifax Regional Municipality
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348 ...
.
Her other plays have included ''Three Storey, Ocean View'', ''Bitter Rose'' and ''Miss'n Me''. Her latest project involves adapting
Ernest Buckler's novel ''The Mountain and the Valley'' for the stage.
Banks has cited
Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a French-Canadian novelist and playwright.
Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood wit ...
and
María Irene Fornés
María Irene Fornés (May 14, 1930 – October 30, 2018) was a Cuban-American playwright, theater director, and teacher who worked in off-Broadway and experimental theater venues in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Her plays range ...
as being among her literary inspirations.
Her play ''Bone Cage'' was adapted by actor and director
Taylor Olson for the 2020 theatrical film ''
Bone Cage''.
[Morgan Mullin]
"Trapped inside a Bone Cage"
'' The Coast'', September 22, 2020.
References
External links
Catherine Banksat the
Playwrights Guild of Canada
Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) is a Canadian charity that works to advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian playwrights; promote Canadian plays, and foster community of writers. It was founded in 1972.
History
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Living people
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Governor General's Award-winning dramatists
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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