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Kelly Rebar (born 1956 in
Lethbridge Lethbridge ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. With a population of 101,482 in its 2019 Alberta municipal censuses, 2019 municipal census, Lethbridge became the fourth Alberta city to surpass 100,000 people. The nearby Canadian ...
, Alberta) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter, best known for the play and film ''
Bordertown Café ''Bordertown Café'' is a 1991 Canadian drama film produced and directed by Norma Bailey and written by Kelly Rebar, based on her 1987 play of the same name."Cafe connects cultures". ''Calgary Herald'', November 27, 1991. The film stars Janet Wri ...
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''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', October 11, 2011. Her first play, ''Chatters'', was produced at
Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
's Factory Theatre West in 1974. She studied film at York University in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1978. Her second play, ''Checkin' Out'', was produced by Northern Light Theatre in 1981, and ''Bordertown Café'' was first staged in 1987. Her other plays have included ''First Snowfall'' and ''Cornflower Blue''. For the theatrical version of ''Bordertown Café'', she was shortlisted for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 1989, and won the Canadian Authors Association award for drama in 1990, and for the film version she was a shortlisted Genie Award nominee for Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992."Genie award nominations". ''Toronto Star'', November 20, 1992. She subsequently concentrated on film and television writing, including the television series ''Wind at My Back'' and ''Jake and the Kid (1995 TV series), Jake and the Kid'', and CBC Television's film adaptation of Alice Munro's ''Lives of Girls and Women''.


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1956 births 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Canadian women screenwriters Canadian television writers Writers from Lethbridge York University alumni Living people Canadian women television writers 20th-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-playwright-stub