Playwrights Canada Press Playwrights Canada Press is a Canadian publishing house founded in 1984 by the Playwrights Guild of Canada. It was incorporated in 2000 as an independent company. Notable books *''The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God'', Djanet Sears ( ...

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Carol Bolt Carol Bolt (August 25, 1941 – November 28, 2000) was a Canadian playwright. She was a founding member and, for several years, president of the Playwrights Union of Canada. Career Bolt's play ''Buffalo Jump'', an examination of Canada during ...

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Ted Johns Ted Johns is a Canadian playwright, born in Seaforth, Ontario in 1942. His plays have been primarily produced at the Blyth Festival but also at Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Upper Canada Playhouse. Plays * Naked on the N ...

Damien Atkins Damien Atkins is a Canadian actor and playwright."Damien Atkins stands out"
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Andrew Kushnir Andrew Kushnir (born 1980) is a Canadian playwright and actor."Kushnir, Andrew"
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Rachel Wyatt Rachel Wyatt (born 1929 in Bradford, England) 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. Wyatt was appointed as a member ...

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James Reaney James Crerar Reaney, (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol." Reaney won Canada's highest literary a ...

Anne Chislett Anne Chislett (born December 22, 1942) is a Canadian playwright. Biography Born and raised in St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland, Chislett studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of British Columbia. She taught high s ...

Lee MacDougall Lee MacDougall is a Canadian actor, writer and theatre director."High Life? Absolutely: Stratford actor Lee MacDougall is enjoying success and honors as a playwright". ''Waterloo Region Record'', November 1, 1997. Originally from Kirkland Lake, On ...

Shirley Barrie Shirley Barrie (1945-2018) was a Canadian writer. She was the co-founder of the Wakefield Tricycle Company and Tricycle Theatre. Her plays include ''Straight Stitching'', ''Carrying the Calf'', and ''Tripping Through Time''. Early life and educ ...

Girl in the Goldfish Bowl ''Girl in the Goldfish Bowl'' is a 2003 Governor General's Award-winning play by Canadian playwright Morris Panych. Set in Steveston, British Columbia in 1962, it tells the story of a young girl named Iris who believes that the world has been ...

Morris Panych Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Early life Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the Univers ...

Drew Hayden Taylor Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author and journalist. Life and career Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is part Ojibwe and part Caucasian. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Bec ...

Raymond Storey Raymond Storey (born in Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadians, Canadian playwright and television writer.

Anne Chislett Anne Chislett (born December 22, 1942) is a Canadian playwright. Biography Born and raised in St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland, Chislett studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of British Columbia. She taught high s ...

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Rick McNair Rick McNair (1942–2007), was a Canadian basketball player and coach. He was the former Director of Theatre Calgary and the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the founder of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, he died in Winnipe ...

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 ...

Raymond Storey Raymond Storey (born in Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadians, Canadian playwright and television writer.

Drew Hayden Taylor Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author and journalist. Life and career Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is part Ojibwe and part Caucasian. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Bec ...

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Gwen Pharis Ringwood Gwen Pharis Ringwood (13 August 1910 Anatone, Washington – 24 May 1984 Williams Lake, British Columbia) was a Canadian playwright. Life She graduated from the University of Alberta. She worked part-time as a secretary for Elizabeth Sterling Hay ...

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Irene N. Watts Irene Naemi Watts (née Kirstein, May 24, 1931 – November 21, 2023) was a German-born Canadian writer and educator. Early life and education Irene Naemi Kirstein was born in Berlin on May 24, 1931, and lived there for seven years. She moved ...

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Michael MacLennan Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' and ''Bomb Girls''. As a playwright he is a two ...

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Damien Atkins Damien Atkins is a Canadian actor and playwright."Damien Atkins stands out"
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Irene N. Watts Irene Naemi Watts (née Kirstein, May 24, 1931 – November 21, 2023) was a German-born Canadian writer and educator. Early life and education Irene Naemi Kirstein was born in Berlin on May 24, 1931, and lived there for seven years. She moved ...

Michael Redhill Michael Redhill (born 12 June 1966) is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist.Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) ''Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)'' is a 1988 comedic play by Ann-Marie MacDonald in which Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen's University, goes on a subconscious journey of self-discovery. Constance ...

Ann-Marie MacDonald Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. MacDonald is the daughter of a member of Canada's military; she was born at an air force base near ...

Morris Panych Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Early life Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the Univers ...

Henry Beissel Henry Eric Beissel (born 12 April 1929 Cologne) is a writer and editor who has published 24 volumes of poetry, six books of plays, a non-fiction book on Canada, two anthologies of plays intended for use in high schools, and numerous essays and pie ...

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Michael MacLennan Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' and ''Bomb Girls''. As a playwright he is a two ...

Henry Beissel Henry Eric Beissel (born 12 April 1929 Cologne) is a writer and editor who has published 24 volumes of poetry, six books of plays, a non-fiction book on Canada, two anthologies of plays intended for use in high schools, and numerous essays and pie ...

Tom Hendry Tom Hendry (1929 – 2 December 2012) was the co-founder of the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1958 and, in 2008, the MTC Warehouse Theatre was officially dedicated to Hendry. Hendry was born in Manitoba. He attended the University of Manitoba in ...

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Ted Johns Ted Johns is a Canadian playwright, born in Seaforth, Ontario in 1942. His plays have been primarily produced at the Blyth Festival but also at Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Upper Canada Playhouse. Plays * Naked on the N ...

Herschel Hardin Herschel Hardin (born 1936) is a British Columbia-based writer, playwright, commentator and political activist and consultant best known for having contested the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Canada in 1995. Life and career Hardin grew ...

Mark Leiren-Young Mark Leiren-Young (born 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and performer. He lives in Saanich, British Columbia. Early life Mark Leiren-Young was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He spent two years at ...

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John Krizanc John Krizanc (born 1956) is a Canadians, Canadian playwright who established an international reputation with his non-linear work, ''Tamara (play), Tamara''. Exploring the rise of Fascism in 1920s Italy, the play was one of the first non-linear, i ...

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Rick McNair Rick McNair (1942–2007), was a Canadian basketball player and coach. He was the former Director of Theatre Calgary and the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the founder of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, he died in Winnipe ...

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Ted Johns Ted Johns is a Canadian playwright, born in Seaforth, Ontario in 1942. His plays have been primarily produced at the Blyth Festival but also at Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Upper Canada Playhouse. Plays * Naked on the N ...

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Sky Gilbert Schuyler Lee (Sky) Gilbert Jr. (born December 20, 1952) is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at the University of Toronto, before be ...

Harlem Duet ''Harlem Duet'' is a 1997 dramatic play by Canadian playwright Djanet Sears. Billie, a young graduate student in Harlem, deals with her husband Othello leaving her for a white woman named Mona. The play moves through time to show Billie and O ...

Djanet Sears Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director, nationally recognized for her work in African-Canadian theatre. Sears has many credits in writing and editing highly acclaimed dramas such as ''Afrika Solo'', the first stage play to be wr ...

Kent Stetson Kent Stetson, (born July 5, 1948) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Stetson is best known for the plays ''Warm Wind in China'' (1988), one of the first and most prominent AIDS-themed plays produced in Canada; ''As I Am'' (1986), a noted ...

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The Heart Specialist ''The Heart Specialist'' is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Dennis Cooper, and starring Wood Harris, Zoe Saldana, Brian J. White and Mýa. Originally released under the title ''Ways of the Flesh'', th ...

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George F. Walker George F. Walker (born August 23, 1947) 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 W ...

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Vittorio Rossi Vittorio Luciano Rossi (born April 16, 1961) is a playwright, actor and screenwriter born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in the district of Ville Emard. Graduating from Concordia University in 1985 with a B.F.A. specializing in theatr ...

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Dennis Foon Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of ...

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Sky Gilbert Schuyler Lee (Sky) Gilbert Jr. (born December 20, 1952) is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at the University of Toronto, before be ...

Ted Johns Ted Johns is a Canadian playwright, born in Seaforth, Ontario in 1942. His plays have been primarily produced at the Blyth Festival but also at Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Upper Canada Playhouse. Plays * Naked on the N ...

Lee MacDougall Lee MacDougall is a Canadian actor, writer and theatre director."High Life? Absolutely: Stratford actor Lee MacDougall is enjoying success and honors as a playwright". ''Waterloo Region Record'', November 1, 1997. Originally from Kirkland Lake, On ...

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Homechild ''Homechild'' is a play written by Canadian Governor General's Award-winning playwright Joan MacLeod. The play's undertone is about the migration of the nearly 100,000 "home children," orphans and children placed for adoption who were transplante ...

Joan MacLeod Joan MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright.Joan MacLeod
Canadian Theatre Encyclo ...

Rachel Wyatt Rachel Wyatt (born 1929 in Bradford, England) 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. Wyatt was appointed as a member ...

Homeward Bound Homeward may refer to: * ''Homeward'' (film), a 2019 film * "Homeward" (song), a song by The Sundays from their 1997 album ''Static and Silence'' * "Homeward" (''TNG'' episode), a ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode from the seventh seaso ...

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Joan MacLeod Joan MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright.Joan MacLeod
Canadian Theatre Encyclo ...

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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 ...

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Tom Hendry Tom Hendry (1929 – 2 December 2012) was the co-founder of the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1958 and, in 2008, the MTC Warehouse Theatre was officially dedicated to Hendry. Hendry was born in Manitoba. He attended the University of Manitoba in ...

Hope McIntyre Hope McIntyre is a Canadian playwright, theatre creator, and professor. She was the founding artistic director of Sarasvati Productions and served as the company's artistic director until 2020. Early life and education McIntyre was born and r ...

Robertson Davies William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...

Shirley Barrie Shirley Barrie (1945-2018) was a Canadian writer. She was the co-founder of the Wakefield Tricycle Company and Tricycle Theatre. Her plays include ''Straight Stitching'', ''Carrying the Calf'', and ''Tripping Through Time''. Early life and educ ...

I, Claudia ''I, Claudia'' is a one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson, which was adapted into a movie, shown on CBC's ''Opening Night (TV series), Opening Night'' and at the Toronto International Film Festival. The play and film, written by Thomson, is a ...

Vern Thiessen Vern Thiessen (born c. 1964) 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 ...

Janet Munsil Janet Munsil is a Canadian playwright based in Victoria, British Columbia.Amy Smart"Playwright puts own touches on condensed classic". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', October 1, 2014. She is most noted for her plays ''That Elusive Spark'' and ''Be Sti ...

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Maureen Hunter Maureen Hunter (born 1948)Hunter, Maureen
in the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. is a Canadians ...

Carol Bolt Carol Bolt (August 25, 1941 – November 28, 2000) was a Canadian playwright. She was a founding member and, for several years, president of the Playwrights Union of Canada. Career Bolt's play ''Buffalo Jump'', an examination of Canada during ...

David Demchuk David Demchuk is a Canadian playwright and novelist,"Demchuk, David"
''Canadian Theatre En ...

Joanna McClelland Glass Joanna McClelland Glass (born October 7, 1936 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian playwright. She became an American citizen in 1962. Plays *1972 ''Canadian Gothic'' *1972 ''American Modern'' *1975 ''Artichoke'' *1980 ''To Grandmother's Hous ...

Erin Shields Erin Shields is a Canadians, Canadian stage actress and playwright.

Mark Leiren-Young Mark Leiren-Young (born 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and performer. He lives in Saanich, British Columbia. Early life Mark Leiren-Young was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He spent two years at ...

Henry Beissel Henry Eric Beissel (born 12 April 1929 Cologne) is a writer and editor who has published 24 volumes of poetry, six books of plays, a non-fiction book on Canada, two anthologies of plays intended for use in high schools, and numerous essays and pie ...

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 ...

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Morris Panych Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Early life Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the Univers ...

In a World Created by a Drunken God ''In a World Created by a Drunken God'' is a play by Canadian author Drew Hayden Taylor. The play was staged for the first time at the Factory Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, as part of the Cross Currents theatre festival in 2003. Published in book ...

Drew Hayden Taylor Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author and journalist. Life and career Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is part Ojibwe and part Caucasian. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Bec ...

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Janet Munsil Janet Munsil is a Canadian playwright based in Victoria, British Columbia.Amy Smart"Playwright puts own touches on condensed classic". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', October 1, 2014. She is most noted for her plays ''That Elusive Spark'' and ''Be Sti ...

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Jan Derbyshire Jan "JD" Derbyshire is a Canadian theatre artist, comedian, and writer. She has performed her one-woman show, ''Certified'', across Canada, including in Vancouver where it won two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Early life and education Der ...

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 Sta ...

Shirley Barrie Shirley Barrie (1945-2018) was a Canadian writer. She was the co-founder of the Wakefield Tricycle Company and Tricycle Theatre. Her plays include ''Straight Stitching'', ''Carrying the Calf'', and ''Tripping Through Time''. Early life and educ ...

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Guillermo Verdecchia Guillermo Verdecchia (born December 7, 1962) is a Canadian theatre artist. Verdecchia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to Canada at the age of two. He was raised in Kitchener, Ontario. Verdecchia received an undergraduate degree in th ...

Dave Carley Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright who has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 450 productions across Canada and the United States, and in other countries. They have won, or been nominated for, a number of awards, i ...

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Henry Beissel Henry Eric Beissel (born 12 April 1929 Cologne) is a writer and editor who has published 24 volumes of poetry, six books of plays, a non-fiction book on Canada, two anthologies of plays intended for use in high schools, and numerous essays and pie ...

Sky Gilbert Schuyler Lee (Sky) Gilbert Jr. (born December 20, 1952) is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at the University of Toronto, before be ...

Steve Galluccio Steve Galluccio (born October 9, 1960) is a Canadian screenwriter and playwright, most noted for his play ''Mambo Italiano'' and its feature film adaptation '' Mambo Italiano''. Background Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec to immigrant parents ...

Daniel Danis Daniel Danis (born 1962 in Hawkesbury, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright. New, W. H., ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. . p. 275. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-lang ...

The Investigator ''The Investigator'' (1954) was a radio play written by Reuben Ship and first broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on May 30 of that year. The play lampooned the actions of the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities ...

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Dennis Foon Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of ...

Catherine Banks Catherine Banks is a Canadian playwright. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, in 2008 for ''Bone Cage'' and in 2012 for ''It Is Solved By Walking''. She resides in Sambro, Nova Scotia, a rural com ...

Shirley Barrie Shirley Barrie (1945-2018) was a Canadian writer. She was the co-founder of the Wakefield Tricycle Company and Tricycle Theatre. Her plays include ''Straight Stitching'', ''Carrying the Calf'', and ''Tripping Through Time''. Early life and educ ...

Ted Johns Ted Johns is a Canadian playwright, born in Seaforth, Ontario in 1942. His plays have been primarily produced at the Blyth Festival but also at Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Upper Canada Playhouse. Plays * Naked on the N ...

Sally Clark Sally Clark (August 1964 – 15 March 2007) was an English solicitor who, in November 1999, became the victim of a miscarriage of justice when she was found guilty of the murder of her two infant sons. Clark's first son died in December 1996 wit ...

Lorena Gale Lorena Gale (May 9, 1958 – June 21, 2009) was a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s. She also authored two award-winning plays, ''Angélique'' and ''Je me so ...

Betty Lambert Betty Lambert, born Elizabeth Minnie Lee (August 23, 1933 – November 4, 1983) was a Canadian writer. Lambert was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Christopher and Bessie Lee (née Cooper), the oldest of three daughters. She graduated from th ...

Charles Heavysege Charles Heavysege (May 2, 1816 – July 14, 1876) was a Canadian poet and dramatist. He was one of the earliest poets to publish in Canada. He is known for his critically acclaimed play ''Saul''.Jessie's Landing'' by John Spurway *'' Jessica'' by Linda Griffiths *'' Jewel'' by

Joan MacLeod Joan MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright.Joan MacLeod
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Mark Leiren-Young Mark Leiren-Young (born 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and performer. He lives in Saanich, British Columbia. Early life Mark Leiren-Young was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He spent two years at ...

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Sky Gilbert Schuyler Lee (Sky) Gilbert Jr. (born December 20, 1952) is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at the University of Toronto, before be ...

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David Fennario David William Fennario, (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for '' Balconville'' (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A ...

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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 ...

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Jan Derbyshire Jan "JD" Derbyshire is a Canadian theatre artist, comedian, and writer. She has performed her one-woman show, ''Certified'', across Canada, including in Vancouver where it won two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Early life and education Der ...

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Maxim Mazumdar Maxim Mazumdar (27 January 1952 – 28 April 1988) was an Indo-Canadians, Indo-Canadian playwright and Theatre director, director. He is known for his one-man show, ''Oscar Remembered'', which tells the story of the Irish people, Irish ...

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Irene N. Watts Irene Naemi Watts (née Kirstein, May 24, 1931 – November 21, 2023) was a German-born Canadian writer and educator. Early life and education Irene Naemi Kirstein was born in Berlin on May 24, 1931, and lived there for seven years. She moved ...

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George F. Walker George F. Walker (born August 23, 1947) 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 W ...

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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 (''The League of Nathans'', ''Reading Hebron'' and ''Thr ...

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Andrew Moodie Andrew Moodie (born November 30, 1966) is a Canadian actor and playwright.Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof"Moodie, Andrew" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', November 16, 2021. He is most noted for his plays ''Riot'', which was a winner of the Floy ...

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Raymond Storey Raymond Storey (born in Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadians, Canadian playwright and television writer.

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Dennis Foon Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of ...

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Dave Carley Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright who has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 450 productions across Canada and the United States, and in other countries. They have won, or been nominated for, a number of awards, i ...

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Michael MacLennan Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' and ''Bomb Girls''. As a playwright he is a two ...

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Morris Panych Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Early life Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the Univers ...

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Michael MacLennan Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' and ''Bomb Girls''. As a playwright he is a two ...

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Arthur Milner Arthur Milner (born July 3, 1950) is a Canadian playwright, theatre director, and journalist. Early life and career Milner was born in Germany. His parents were Polish Jews who survived World War II by escaping to Russia. After several years ...

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Rosa Labordé Rosa Labordé is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter, director and actress.

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Dorothy Dittrich Dorothy Dittrich is a Canadian playwright and musical theatre director and composer from Vancouver, British Columbia,Kathleen Oliver"The Piano Teacher is a beautiful meditation on loss and the healing power of music" ''The Georgia Straight'', April ...

*'' Let's Hear it for Christmas'' by Beth McMaster *'' Let's Make a World'' by Len Peterson *''Letters to My Grandma'' by Anusree Roy *''

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Lies my Father Told me ''Lies My Father Told Me'' is a 1975 Canadian drama film made in Montreal, Quebec. It was directed by Ján Kadár and stars Jeffrey Lynas as an orthodox Jewish boy growing up in 1920s Montreal. The film received the Golden Globe Award for Best Fo ...

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Ted Allan Alan Herman (January 26, 1916 – June 29, 1995), known professionally as Ted Allan, was a Canadian screenwriter, author, and poet, several of whose books were made into motion pictures. In 1975, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for ...

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Michael MacLennan Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' and ''Bomb Girls''. As a playwright he is a two ...

*'' Life and A Lover'' by Natalie D. Meisner *'' Life as a Fly'' by Margaret Matulic *'' Life Coach'' by David King *'' History of the African Elephant'' by Clem Martini *'' A Life in the Movies'' by

Rick McNair Rick McNair (1942–2007), was a Canadian basketball player and coach. He was the former Director of Theatre Calgary and the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the founder of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, he died in Winnipe ...

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Morris Panych Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Early life Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the Univers ...

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Sally Clark Sally Clark (August 1964 – 15 March 2007) was an English solicitor who, in November 1999, became the victim of a miscarriage of justice when she was found guilty of the murder of her two infant sons. Clark's first son died in December 1996 wit ...

*'' Lig & Bittle'' by Elyne Quan *'' The Lights of North America'' by David King *'' Lilies'' by

Michel Marc Bouchard Michel Marc Bouchard, (born February 2, 1958) is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian ...

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Irene N. Watts Irene Naemi Watts (née Kirstein, May 24, 1931 – November 21, 2023) was a German-born Canadian writer and educator. Early life and education Irene Naemi Kirstein was born in Berlin on May 24, 1931, and lived there for seven years. She moved ...

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Guillermo Verdecchia Guillermo Verdecchia (born December 7, 1962) is a Canadian theatre artist. Verdecchia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to Canada at the age of two. He was raised in Kitchener, Ontario. Verdecchia received an undergraduate degree in th ...

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James Reaney James Crerar Reaney, (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol." Reaney won Canada's highest literary a ...

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Vittorio Rossi Vittorio Luciano Rossi (born April 16, 1961) is a playwright, actor and screenwriter born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in the district of Ville Emard. Graduating from Concordia University in 1985 with a B.F.A. specializing in theatr ...

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Irene N. Watts Irene Naemi Watts (née Kirstein, May 24, 1931 – November 21, 2023) was a German-born Canadian writer and educator. Early life and education Irene Naemi Kirstein was born in Berlin on May 24, 1931, and lived there for seven years. She moved ...

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Joan MacLeod Joan MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright.Joan MacLeod
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Gwen Pharis Ringwood Gwen Pharis Ringwood (13 August 1910 Anatone, Washington – 24 May 1984 Williams Lake, British Columbia) was a Canadian playwright. Life She graduated from the University of Alberta. She worked part-time as a secretary for Elizabeth Sterling Hay ...

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Rachel Wyatt Rachel Wyatt (born 1929 in Bradford, England) 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. Wyatt was appointed as a member ...

*'' Lokkinen'' by Barbara Sapergia *'' Lola Starr Builds Her Dream Home'' by

Sky Gilbert Schuyler Lee (Sky) Gilbert Jr. (born December 20, 1952) is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at the University of Toronto, before be ...

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Sally Clark Sally Clark (August 1964 – 15 March 2007) was an English solicitor who, in November 1999, became the victim of a miscarriage of justice when she was found guilty of the murder of her two infant sons. Clark's first son died in December 1996 wit ...

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George F. Walker George F. Walker (born August 23, 1947) 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 W ...

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Rachel Wyatt Rachel Wyatt (born 1929 in Bradford, England) 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. Wyatt was appointed as a member ...

*'' Love and War Western Style'' by Rose Scollard *'' Love is Strange'' by Paul Ledoux *'' Love List'' by Norm Foster *''

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Hrant Alianak Hrant Alianak (born 1950), also billed as Harant Alianak or Grant Aljanak, is an Armenian-Canadian actor and playwright. Career In 1988, he was nominated for the Genie Award "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role" for the 1987 film ' ...

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Marty Chan Marty Chan (born May 11, 1965) is a Chinese-Canadian author and playwright based in Edmonton, Alberta. His works include ''Something Dead And Evil Lurks In The Cemetery And It's My Dad'', ''The Bone House'', ''Maggie's Last Dance'', ''Mom, Dad - ...

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Irene N. Watts Irene Naemi Watts (née Kirstein, May 24, 1931 – November 21, 2023) was a German-born Canadian writer and educator. Early life and education Irene Naemi Kirstein was born in Berlin on May 24, 1931, and lived there for seven years. She moved ...

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Jan Derbyshire Jan "JD" Derbyshire is a Canadian theatre artist, comedian, and writer. She has performed her one-woman show, ''Certified'', across Canada, including in Vancouver where it won two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Early life and education Der ...

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Tara Grammy Tara Grammy ( fa, تارا گرامی, Tārā Gerāmī) is an Iranian-Canadian actress and playwright. Life and career Grammy was born in Tehran, Iran, but grew up in Toronto, Canada. She co-wrote ''Mahmoud'', a play that was a finalist for the ...

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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 ...

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Steve Galluccio Steve Galluccio (born October 9, 1960) is a Canadian screenwriter and playwright, most noted for his play ''Mambo Italiano'' and its feature film adaptation '' Mambo Italiano''. Background Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec to immigrant parents ...

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Colin Heath Colin Heath (born 31 December 1983) is an English former association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), striker or midfielder, attacking midfielder for Cambridge United F.C., Cambridge United, Swindon Town F.C., ...

*'' Man 2 Man'' by Kwame Stephens *'' The Man Who Collected Women'' by Rose Scollard *'' The Man Who Shot Chance Delaney'' by Ian Weir *'' The Man who Went'' by W.A. Tremayne *'' Many Happy Returns'' by Michael Shepherd *''

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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 ...

*'' A Marginal Man'' by Yvette Nolan *'' Marguerite de Roberval'' by

Shirley Barrie Shirley Barrie (1945-2018) was a Canadian writer. She was the co-founder of the Wakefield Tricycle Company and Tricycle Theatre. Her plays include ''Straight Stitching'', ''Carrying the Calf'', and ''Tripping Through Time''. Early life and educ ...

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Stewart Lemoine ''Stewart Lemoine'' is a Canadian playwright, director, and producer. Lemoine was the Artistic Director of Teatro la Quindicina from 1982 to 2007. In 2008 he became Teatro's resident playwright, working on his own original comedies and mentoring th ...

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Rick McNair Rick McNair (1942–2007), was a Canadian basketball player and coach. He was the former Director of Theatre Calgary and the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the founder of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, he died in Winnipe ...

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Henry Beissel Henry Eric Beissel (born 12 April 1929 Cologne) is a writer and editor who has published 24 volumes of poetry, six books of plays, a non-fiction book on Canada, two anthologies of plays intended for use in high schools, and numerous essays and pie ...

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Brian Drader Brian Drader (born 1960) is a Canadian stage actor and playwright."Manitoban Drade ...

*''North (Nelson play), North'' by Greg Nelson *''North Mountain Breakdown'' by Paul Ledoux *''No Sweat (play), No Sweat'' by

Anne Chislett Anne Chislett (born December 22, 1942) is a Canadian playwright. Biography Born and raised in St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland, Chislett studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of British Columbia. She taught high s ...

*''Nosy Parkers'' by Rose Scollard *''Nothing Sacred (play), Nothing Sacred'' by

George F. Walker George F. Walker (born August 23, 1947) 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 W ...

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David Fennario David William Fennario, (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for '' Balconville'' (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A ...

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*''Not So Dumb (play), Not so Dumb'' by John Lazarus *''Not Spain'' by Richard Sanger *''Not Wanted on the Voyage (play), Not Wanted on the Voyage'' by Richard Rose (playwright), Richard Rose and D.D. Kugler *''No’ Xya’'' by David Diamond (theatre), David Diamond *''Nymphomaniac (play), Nymphomaniac'' by Kico Gonzalez-Risso

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Ted Johns Ted Johns is a Canadian playwright, born in Seaforth, Ontario in 1942. His plays have been primarily produced at the Blyth Festival but also at Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Upper Canada Playhouse. Plays * Naked on the N ...

*''Old Flames (play), Old Flames'' by Karen Wikberg *''Old Love (Foster), Old Love'' by Norm Foster *''The Old Woman and the Pedlar'' by Betty Jane Wylie *''Omniscience (play), Omniscience'' by Tim Carlson *''Once Upon a Greek Stage'' by Beth McMaster *''Once Upon a Time (play), Once Upon a Time'' by

Irene N. Watts Irene Naemi Watts (née Kirstein, May 24, 1931 – November 21, 2023) was a German-born Canadian writer and educator. Early life and education Irene Naemi Kirstein was born in Berlin on May 24, 1931, and lived there for seven years. She moved ...

*''Once Upon a Time in Old Westmount'' by Richard Ouzounian *''O'Neill (play), O'Neill'' by Daniel Libman *''One Potato, Two Potato (play), One Potato, Two Potato'' by Aviva Ravel *''One Spring Morning'' by Cherie Thiessen *''Only Birds and Fools Fly'' by Kim Selody *''The Only Game in Town (play), The Only Game in Town'' by Ed Schroeter *''On the Job (play), On the Job'' by

David Fennario David William Fennario, (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for '' Balconville'' (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A ...

*''On the Other Side of the Wall'' by Aviva Ravel *''One Crack Out'' by David French *''One Crowded Hour (play), One Crowded Hour'' by Charlotte Fielden *''One Night Stand (play), One Night Stand'' by

Carol Bolt Carol Bolt (August 25, 1941 – November 28, 2000) was a Canadian playwright. She was a founding member and, for several years, president of the Playwrights Union of Canada. Career Bolt's play ''Buffalo Jump'', an examination of Canada during ...

*''One Tiger to a Hill'' by Sharon Pollock. *''One Man Star Wars Trilogy (play), One Man Star Wars Trilogy'' by Charles Ross (actor), Charles Ross *''The Only Living Father'' by Thomas J. Cahill (playwright), Thomas J. Cahill *''Opening Night (Foster), Opening Night'' by Norm Foster *''Operators (play), Operators'' by Margaret Hollingsworth *''The Oprah Donahue Show'' by

Mark Leiren-Young Mark Leiren-Young (born 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and performer. He lives in Saanich, British Columbia. Early life Mark Leiren-Young was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He spent two years at ...

*''Orchidelirium (play), Orchidelirium'' by

Dave Carley Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright who has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 450 productions across Canada and the United States, and in other countries. They have won, or been nominated for, a number of awards, i ...

*''Organic Divide'' by Robin Fulford *''Orpheus and Eurydice (Scribble), Orpheus and Eurydice'' by Sam Scribble *''Other Side of the Game'' by Amanda Parris *''The Other Side of the Pole'' by Stephen Heatley *''Oui'' by

Andrew Moodie Andrew Moodie (born November 30, 1966) is a Canadian actor and playwright.Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof"Moodie, Andrew" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', November 16, 2021. He is most noted for his plays ''Riot'', which was a winner of the Floy ...

*''Outlaw (Foster), Outlaw'' by Norm Foster *''Out of Body (play), Out of Body'' by Beverley Cooper *''Outside'' by Paul Dunn *''Outside (Fleming play), Outside'' by Neil Fleming *''Overlaid'' by

Robertson Davies William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...

*''Overtrick (play), Overtrick'' by Beth McMasterMcMaster, Beth. Overtrick. Playwrights Guild of Canada, year?. .

External links

Playwrights Guild of Canada list of 2,000 Canadian plays

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Canadian plays G-O Lists of plays Canadian plays, * Canadian literature-related lists, Plays