Tomson Highway

Tomson Highway

male, 57 years old
novelist, Order of Canada, LGBT writer, DoraMavorMooreAward, from Northern Region, Manitoba, children's author…Floyd S. Chalmers Award
Tomson Highway, CM (born December 6, 1951) is a Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author from Brochet, Manitoba. He is the celebrated...
Linda Griffiths

Linda Griffiths

female, 56 years old
Canadian women writer, Theatre Passe Muraille, National Theatre School, Twice in a Lifetime, Katts and Dog, Maggie and Pierre…DoraMavorMooreAward
Linda Griffiths (born 7 October 1956) is a Canadian actor and playwright. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Griffiths studied at Dawson College, the...
Michel Marc Bouchard

Michel Marc Bouchard

male, 51 years old
Quebec writer, The Orphan Muses, Saint Coeur-de-Marie, Jesse Richardson Award, Prix Journal de Montreal, Chalmers Award for Outstanding New Play…DoraMavorMooreAward
Michel Marc Bouchard (born February 2, 1958) is an openly gay Canadian playwright. Born in Saint Coeur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the...
Djanet Sears

Djanet Sears

female
Governor General's Award winning dramatist, Governor General's Award, Djanet, Harlem Duet, Obsidian Theatre, DoraMavorMooreAward…Governor-General's Award
Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director. Born in England to a Guyanese father and a Jamaican mother, Sears was raised in England...

D'Bi Young

female
Canadian women writer, DoraMavorMooreAward, dub poet, Dub poetry, blood.claat one womban story, Dora Mavor Moore Awards…dora
d'bi.young is a Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, as well as a Dora-winning actor and playwright. Born and raised Debbie Young in Jamaica, she moved to...
Michael Therriault

Michael Therriault

male
Broadway theatre, The Lord of the Rings, Gollum, DoraMavorMooreAward, Gemini Award, Stratford Festival of Canada…Dora Award
Michael Therriault (born in Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. He attended Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto, Sheridan College in...
Ranee Lee

Ranee Lee

female, 67 years old
American expatriate musician in Canada, DoraMavorMooreAward, Order of Canada, From Montreal, Musical theatre actor, jazz
Ranee Lee (born 1942 in New York City) is a Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec. Lee toured North America in the...
Martha Burns

Martha Burns

female
Trafford Tanzi, Genie Award winner for Best Supporting Actress, Tarragon Theatre, Shaw Festival, National Arts Centre, Gemini Award…DoraMavorMooreAward, Genie Award winner
Martha Burns is an award-winning Canadian actress best known for her stage work and youth outreach in Ontario and her leading role in the TV drama...
John Krizanc

John Krizanc

male, 53 years old
Governor General's Award winning dramatist, Uterine Knight, The Half of It, Crimes of Innocence, Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Governor General's Award…Chalmers Award, DoraMavorMooreAward
Playwright John Krizanc was born in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1956 and established an international reputation with his non-linear work, "Tamara". Its...
Stewart Lemoine

Stewart Lemoine

male
Theatre director, A Grand Time in the Rapids, On the Banks of the Nut, The Margin of the Sky, The Glittering Heart, The Exquisite Hour…DoraMavorMooreAward, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award
"Stewart Lemoine" is a Canadian playwright, director, and producer. Lemoine is based in Edmonton, Alberta and is the Artistic Director of Teatro la...