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Florence Gibson
Florence was born in Montreal,
Quebec and raised in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. She has an undergraduate
degree in biochemistry and genetics and an M.D. She practised in Inuvik,
Northwest Territories, Hong Kong and East Africa before returning to
Canada to practice and eventually write full-time.
Her play Belle
was short listed for a British Council New International Playwriting
Award in 1996 before its premiere at Factory Theatre, Toronto, in 2000.
It was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play
and won a Chalmers Canadian Play Award. It has also been produced in
London, England, Ottawa and New York.
Her radio drama Missing
You, (Love) aired in September 2001 on CBC and Florence has
adapted it for stage production at the Factory Theatre, Toronto, 2008.
Missing won the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award, 2005.
Her play, Home is My Road,
produced at Factory Theatre, Toronto in 2003, where she is currently
writer in residence, won the Carol Bolt Canadian Authors Association
National Award for drama, 2004. Her newest hit play i think i can,
told through tap dance and choreographed by Shawn Byfield, premiered
at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People in April 2007, was nominated
for five Dora Mavor Moore Awards and won for Outstanding New Musical.
Florence is currently working
on How Do I Love Thee?, a play about Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, commissioned by the Stratford Festival of Canada.
Florence is completing her novel, Stout, and beginning a new
tap piece with Shawn Byfield, Malepygion.
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