Playwrights Reading Series

The Department of Theatre presents: Playwriting: A Risky Business With Colleen Murphy The Playwrights Reading Series 2016 – 2017 is hosted in partnership with the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and the Centre for the Study of Script Development with the assistance of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Colleen Murphy is a playwright, filmmaker and librettist. In 2014, she won the Carol Bolt Award for her play Pig Girl and was also shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Her play The December Man (L’homme de décembre) won the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, the CAA/Carol Bolt Award and the Enbridge Playwrights Award. Other plays include Armstrong’s War, The Goodnight Bird, Beating Heart Cadaver (nominated for a 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama), The Piper, Down in Adoration Falling and All Other Destinations are Cancelled. She won awards in the CBC Literary Competition and her distinct films have played in festivals around the world. Colleen is currently the 2014-17 Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In 2011/12, she was the Canadian Playwright-in-Residence at Finborough Theatre in London, U.K., as well as Playwright-in-Residence at Factory Theatre in Toronto.

More information at: http://www.uregina.ca/events/playwrights-reading-series