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Irene N. Watts
In 1968 Irene N. Watts came
to Canada from Britain, where she had arrived thirty years earlier from
Germany, via Kindertransport. She is a writer/playwright, theatre director,
and educator. Her plays for Young Audiences have been widely produced.
Awards include a Vancouver Theatre Alliance Jessie Richardson for
Good-Bye Marianne (Scirocco Drama and Anchorage Press, U.S.); the
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People; the Isaac
Frischwasser Memorial prize (Toronto Book Awards, in 1999 and 2001);
the Government of Alberta – Achievement Award for Outstanding Service
to Drama. Irene is a Life Member of Playwrights Guild of Canada. Recent
publications include Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young
People, compiled with Lillian Boraks-Nemetz. (Tundra Books).
“I believe that drama
and the telling of stories, by involving us in those stories, is a profound
way to help us comprehend both past and present. Theatre at its best,
embraces, enlightens, entertains and makes us question how we live and
die.”
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