- Below is a list of Canadian playwrights lifted from Wikipedia. Am I allowed to do that? Harper will tell me. (I can't get rid of these bullets. I tend to know the French Canadian ones best. Colleen Curran isn't there, and plenty of others are left out too, I imagine. I recognize Rick Salutin. I've read many of his articles over the years and they stand out as he is an exceptional writer and he has an exceptional mind.
- My play Milk and Water is about Montreal in 1927 and features a talk between Jules Crepeau, my grandfather and Director of Services and Thomas Wells, my husband's grandfather, President of Laurentian Spring Water. The two men discuss ethics, business family and the human right to drink clean fresh water.
- I just Mary Anne Macdonald's book, that takes place in the 1910 era, like Threshold Girl. There would be more Canadian playwrights on this list if we had a radio channel like BBC Radio Four. I've heard many a splendid established or new playwright on that station over the past 6 years. Ever since it came online. BRILLIANT stuff. Mind-blowing.
- Marcy Kahan, I think it's spelled, is a regular contributor and she's from Montreal, I seem to remember. Yes, here's her bit from WIKIPEDIA.to: navigation, searchMarcy Kahan (born 4 July) is a British playwright and radio dramatist, who is half-Canadian and half-American.[1][2] She is a prolific author of urbane comedies for the BBC. She was born in Montreal, educated at Oxford University and trained in theatre in Paris with the Lecoq School teachers, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux. I used her line "I give myself permission to write the worst first draft in history, as the first pose in my blog Flo in the City. She was my inspiration with Nella Last of Nella Last's War and Peace and 50's.
- Marianne Ackerman
- Evan Adams
- André Alexis
- Anne-Marie Alonzo
- Hugh Abercrombie Anderson
- Trey Anthony
- Salvatore Antonio
- Anthony Armstrong
- Barry Avrich
- Caroline Azar
- John Bemrose
- Nicolas Billon
- Columpa Bobb
- Gail Bowen
- Michel Marc Bouchard
- George Boyd
- Marie Brassard
- Leanna Brodie
- Daniel Brooks
- Kenneth Brown
- Mark Brownell
- Aaron Bushkowsky
- Dave Carley
- Robert Chafe
- Normand Chaurette
- Évelyne de la Chenelière
- Herménégilde Chiasson
- Sally Clark
- George Elliott Clarke
- Marie Clements
- Joy Coghill
- Michael Cook
- Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
- Douglas Craven
- Jean-Marc Dalpé
- Mazo de la Roche
- Sandra Dempsey
- Claudia Dey
- Chris Doty
- Clive Doucet
- Marcel Dubé
- Réjean Ducharme
- David Fennario (Balconville, Joe Beef)
- Timothy Findley (Elizabeth Rex, The Stillborn Lover)
- Waawaate Fobister (Agokwe)
- Denis Foon (The Short Tree and the Bird That Could Not Sing)
- Norm Foster (Sinners, The Affections of May)
- Brad Fraser (Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Poor Super Man)
- David French (Leaving Home, Salt-Water Moon)
- Lorena Gale
- C. E. Gatchalian
- John MacLachlan Gray
- Richard Greenblatt
- Linda Griffiths
- Sky Gilbert
- Joanna Glass
- Gratien Gélinas
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Daniel MacIvor
- Michael MacLennan
- Stephen Massicotte
- Frank Moher
- Kim Morrissey
- Hannah Moscovitch
- Daniel David Moses
- Wajdi Mouawad
- Colleen Murphy
- John Murrell
- Morris Panych
- Alex Poch-Goldin
- Sharon Pollock
- James Reaney
- Michael Redhill
- Vittorio Rossi (Little Blood Brother, Backstreets, The Chain, The Last Adam, Paradise By The River, A Carpenter's Trilogy)
- George Ryga
- Rick Salutin (1837, Les Canadiens)
- Djanet Sears (Harlem Duet, The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God)
- Sandra Shamas (My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry)
- Jason Sherman (The League of Nathans, Reading Hebron)
- Jaspreet Singh (Speak, Oppenheimer)
- Ron Sparks
- Kent Stetson (The Harps of God)
- Allan Stratton (Rexy!, 72 Under the O)
- Drew Hayden Taylor
- Vern Thiessen
- Judith Thompson
- Kristen Thomson (I, Claudia)
- Lise Tremblay
- Michel Tremblay (Les Belles-sœurs, Albertine in Five Times)
- Robert Tsonos
- David Yee (lady in the red dress)
- d'bi young
- David Young
Monday, June 18, 2012
Canadian Playwrights and Me (Maybe)
