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Colleen Wagner
Colleen Wagner is a professional
playwright, film script and short fiction writer. Her first stage play,
Sand, was shortlisted for best international play at the Royal Exchange
Theatre in Manchester, England, in 1989. She won the 1996 Governor General’s
Literary Award for Drama for her play The Monument, which was
also nominated for a Dora Award. The Monument has been translated
into French, German and Mandarin, and has been produced across North
America and in Australia, Berlin and Beijing—the first commercial
production of a Canadian play to be produced in China. In 2006, The
Monument became the first production by a non-black writer to be
presented by Toronto’s Obsidian Theatre Company. The Monument
premiered in a Romanian translation in Resita, Romania in 2007.
Colleen Wagner’s other stage
credits include Eclipsed and The Morning Bird, which premiered
at the Notable Acts Summer Theatre Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick
in 2005. Her current projects include a new play titled Home,
a screenplay adaptation of The Monument, and story-editing a
documentary film, “Hallowed be thy Name.”
Professor Wagner currently
teaches at York University in the Film Department.
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