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2001
Winners Photos & Bios
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2001 Winner - Full Length
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Carl C. Cashin - Mail-Order
Annie Born on "The Rock" (NFLD) and raised in Toronto, Carl Cashin abandoned corporate life in 1976 to open a summer resort on the Trent-Seven Waterway near the town of Stirling. Originally a prose and poetry writer, his love of theatre was kindled in 1997 while working backstage at the Belleville Theatre Guild, where lighting, sound, and stage management were his main focus on productions of The Stone Angel, Country Chorale and Harvey. Bitten, he joined a local playwriting group and wrote Pathways and Yesterday's Hero, both one-act plays which won several awards and praise at the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival. Mail-Order Annie is Carl's first full length play and reflects his love of history and passion for a good story well told. Carl would like to acknowledge the friendship and support of his fellow writers Richard, Catherine, Agnes and Michael. |
2001 Winner - One
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Paul McLaughlin - Whole-In-One Paul McLaughlin has been a professional writer and broadcaster for more than 25 years. His plays include "The Umpire's New Clothes", "Jacques Plante and the Parkdale Knitting League", "Corporate Rules" and, for CBC Radio, the five-part series "Head Games". For TV, he wrote and co-produced "Hockey Night In Hollywood", a CTV special starring Wayne Gretzky and Alan Thicke. A magazine instructor at Ryerson Polytechnic University School of Journalism, Paul has also written feature articles for most major Canadian magazines as well as several books. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Magazine Awards Foundation and is a former member of the board of directors of PEN Canada. This is Paul's second win in Theatre BC's Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition. "Jacques Plante and the Parkdale Knitting League" took the One-Act Category honors in 1994. |
2001 Winner - Special Merit
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Brian Drader - PROK Brian Drader is an actor and writer who makes his home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a writer, his plays include "The Norbals" (Prairie Theatre Exchange, Canadian Stage), "The Fruit Machine" (numerous productions), "Tucktuck" (Alberta Theatre Projects) and "Mind of the Iguana" and "Easter Eggs" (both co-written with Stephen McIntyre). His play "Bubba and the Peter Eater" was a Finalist in Theatre BC's Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition in 1996. Upcoming projects include the film version of "The Fruit Machine" and "S*IT", a play for highschool audiences. A short story from his collection "The Death of Romance" was published in the summer/01 edition of Prairie Fire. As an actor, he has over 70 professional stage credits and a number of television and film credits, most recently appearing in productions of Dave Carley's "Walking On Water" and Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest". In the spring of this year, he appeared in the "TheGathering" for Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, and he is presently playing Tom in "The Glass Menagerie" at Prairie Theatre Exchange. |
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Bob Armstrong - Noble
Savage, Savage Noble Bob Armstrong is a jack-of-all-trades, freelance writer who makes a living writing speeches, news stories, press releases, video scripts, trade magazine articles, government reports and whatever else will pay. He does that to feed his habit: making stuff up for stage or page. In addition to writing and producing plays at the Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals ("Schlepping Yuri", "A Maze in Greys", "Flyoverville"), he has had a pair of plays workshopped professionally ("Fred Turner Tames the Last Frontier" at Workshop West Theatre, Edmonton, and "Penetration" at Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary) and has just completed a 150,000-word first draft of a novel, tentatively titled "The Epic of Gilgamesh". A grad school drop-out, Bob almost became an historian, but instead he ended up exploring historical questions in several of his plays. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife Rosemary and son Sam. |
| 2001 Finalist to be added Maureen Robinson |
Maureen
Robinson - Sylvia Grey Beamer Maureen Robinson has been a Westcoaster for the past twenty years (or so) and has enjoyed an ongoing relationship with Theatre BC. This is her fourth time as a Finalist in Theatre BC's National Playwrighting Competition and was a one-time recipient of the Special Merit Award for her script Rye and Shine. She was also a finalist in the Ottawa Little Theatre National One Act Playwriting Competition with her script Youth in Asia. She has had two plays produced at Vancouver's New Play Centre's Springrites Festival. Maureen has produced and directed numerous Fringe Festival shows and recently worked as a dramaturge and director on an International script entitled, The Kimono Loosened. She is a program director for the Fine and Performing Arts Program at the International Language Schools of Canada and taught play building and performance for almost five years. |
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Evan Webber - Catfish Evan says he has been exploring theatre for about four years now, "mostly in the admittedly forgiving environment of Drama Class". He last appeared as Jack Washington in "Obedience" by Hugh Gibson, at Toronto's Summerworks festival in 2000. Since then he's been practicing writing, working on collectives ("In the Lions Mouth", and "The Oath), both at Northern Secondary School. Evan is currently part of the Tarragon Young Playwrites Unit at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto and is teaching a poetry class to elementary school students. Evan hopes to attend a quality theatre school next year. "Catfish" is the first play Evan has entered in any playwriting competition. |
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A. Colin Wright -
Little Lord Haw-Haw Colin Wright is a former instructor in the Department of Russian Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, ON (1964-1999). His education includes a BA, MA and Ph.D from Pembroke College, Cambridge, as well as writing courses through the Universities of Iowa and New Brunswick. Born in Essex, England, Colin received his Canadian citizenship in 1971. Colin's published writing credits include many academic articles on Russian and Comparative Literature, journalistic articles for The Whig Standard (Kingston), a major book, "Mikhail Bulgakov: Life and Interpretations" (University of Toronto Press, 1978) and numerous short stories in various publications in both the UK and Canada. Colin previously won the Special Merit category in Theatre BC's Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition in 1993 with his play, "Lieutenant Kizhe". The play was produced by Theatre 5 in Kingston in 1993 and published on demand by IRT-Blizzard Press in March of 1999. Colin's play "George's Funeral", which received the 1995 Gladys Cameron Watt Award in Ottawa Little Theatre's Canadian One-Act Playwriting Competition, was produced at the Pinnacle Theatre in Belleville, ON in August of 2000. Colin's lengthy involvement with Domino Theatre and Theatre 5 in Kingston includes credits as both a director and actor. |
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