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Colleen Curran
Colleen Curran is a Montreal
playwright, novelist, CBC dramatist, actor, performer and screenwriter.
Her plays have been widely produced across Canada and the USA. Her comedies
which premiered at the Blyth Festival are: Cake-Walk, Moose
County, Miss Balmoral of the Bayview, Local Talent,
Ceili House and Villa Eden. Her play Sacred Hearts,
which she adapted for CBC Morningside, won an international Gabriel
Award. Other works include In the Country of the Blue, Mothers
of the Year, Casa de Mary Margaret, El Clavadista
and Another Labour Day (winner, best new play, Quebec Drama Federation)
and Something Drastic adapted from her first novel about Montreal
singing waitress Lenore Rutland. Her other novels, also published by
Goose Lane Editions, are Overnight Sensation and Guests of
Chance (October 2005). She was playwright in residence at Centaur
Theatre and is co-artistic director of the Triumvirate Theatre Company.
She has taught playwriting all over North America and taught a comedy
workshop at the National Theatre School of Canada.
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