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Shirley Barrie
In 1972 Shirley Barrie co-founded the Wakefield Tricycle
Company in London, England with Ken Chubb. In 1978 she wrote The
Adventures of Super Granny and the Kid for young audiences and has
been on the playwrighting adventure ever since. In 1980 the Wakefield
Tricycle Company opened the Tricycle Theatre,
a 220-seat theatre that continues to produce plays on the Kilburn High
Road in London. In 2006 the theatre received a Special Award for its
pioneering political work at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. She
returned to Canada in 1985.
In Toronto in 1989, after working
on a Popular Theatre project inspired by the stories of immigrant women
who work in the garment industry, she joined with long-time friend and
collaborator, Lib Spry, and musician, Arlene Mantle to found Straight
Stitching Productions.
Since 2000 she has worked with
story editor, Ken Chubb, on the development of film and television projects.
She was Senior Story Editor on “Jozi-H,” a 13-part hospital drama
co-produced by Inner City Films (Canada) and Morula Pictures (South
Africa) which was shown on CBC TV in 2006/07 and SABC3 in 2007.
She was the Executive Director
of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour from 1988–2005.
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