Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a

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playwright, screenwriter and actress. Her 2008 play, ''Scratch'', was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2009, was a prizewinner in the

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, and was nominated for the

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at the

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in Toronto and then was performed in Kitchener-Waterloo at Green Light Arts, which had originally commissioned it. It received the

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and was shortlisted for the 2020 Governor General's Award for English-language drama. In 2022, Corbeil-Coleman's holiday musical '' Almost a Full Moon'', based on

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's Christmas album of the same name, premiered at the

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in Edmonton. Corbeil-Coleman's other work as a playwright includes ''The End of Pretending'' (2001); ''Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show'' (2009); ''The CN Tower Show'' (2012); and ''Sudden Death'' (2013). She co-wrote ''Twisted'' (2015) with

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'' and the

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''. The daughter of novelist Carole Corbeil and actor Layne Coleman,"A very personal family drama"
''

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'', October 4, 2008. she has also had acting roles in television, including the series '' Blue Murder'' and ''

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''. In 2005 she appeared in the television film '' Mayday''. She is married to theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck.

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