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 QDF) 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.
