Colleen Wagner
Colleen Wagner | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Occupation | playwright |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1980s – present |
| Notable works | The Monument |
Colleen Wagner (born in Elk Point, Alberta)[1] is a Canadian playwright. She is best known for her 1995 play The Monument, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 1996 Governor General's Awards.[2] Her other plays have included Sand (1989), Eclipsed (1991), The Morning Bird (2005), Down from Heaven (2009) Home (2010), The Living (2019) and 'Armadillos' (2023).
She has written and directed a feature documentary film, 'Women Building Peace' based on her travels in Africa, an interactive website, and a short film, 'Remembrance Day.' Short fiction and poetry have been published in various anthologies.
Wagner was educated at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Toronto.[1] She is an associate professor of screenwriting in the film studies department at York University.[1]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Jennifer Wise & Craig S. Walker, The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Vol. II: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Broadview Press, 2003. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. p. 622.
- ^ "The Monument: a stark reminder of Rwanda's tragedy". The Globe and Mail, April 28, 2011.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Colleen Wagner faculty page at York University
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- Living people
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- Governor General's Award–winning dramatists
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- Writers from Alberta
- Writers from Toronto
- Academic staff of York University
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Screenwriting instructors
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