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2002 Jurors
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Jurors for the 14th Annual Canadian National Playwriting Competition were: |
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Sharon Heath Sharon has been working professionally in theatre since graduating from the National Theatre School in 1987. It was in theatre school that she first began writing comedy. Her works include too blonde, and her one-woman show based on Janice Joplin called Piece of My Heart, which was produced by the New Play Centre. In 1992 she founded full figure theatre company with Tammy Bentz and Jacqueline Dandeneau to write and produce more shows about women, including the musical comedy, the "f" word… or Can Feminism be Funny? , way too blonde and the movement piece, Wumpa…. An Adventure. And she has to continued write, direct and perform ever since. For Theatre BC, Sharon served as a dramaturge at the New Play Festival in Kamloops in April, 2001, working on Diane Martin's full-length category winning play, This Above All, a production of which took several awards and an Honorable Mention for Best Production at Theatre BC's MAINSTAGE 2002 in Nanaimo this past summer. |
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Moher Frank Moher is an internationally-produced playwright and well-known dramaturg and teacher of playwriting. His play Odd Jobs has been produced throughout North America as well as abroad, was a finalist for the Governor-General's Award and winner of a Los Angeles Dramalogue Award for Writing. The Third Ascent and Supreme Dream (the latter written with Rhonda Trodd) both toured nationally, and Frank has twice won Edmonton's Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play. His latest script, Big Baby, was part of the 2002 New Play Festival at Vancouver's Playwrights Theatre Centre. As a director-dramaturg, he has worked at the National Arts Centre, the Banff Centre, Workshop West Theatre and TheatreOne, and conducted workshops for Theatre B.C., the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, and the Manitoba Association of Playwrights, among other organizations. Most recently he directed the premiere of Laura Cranmer's DP's Colonial Cabaret (with music by Sandy Scofield) for The Limpfish Collective on Vancouver Island. Frank teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Journalism at Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo, B.C., and is Executive Director of E-script, the internet's scriptwriting workshop <http://singlelane.com/escript> as well as ProPlay <http://singlelane.com/proplay>. As a journalist, he has written for Saturday Night, The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, and The Georgia Straight, among other publications. |
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Howard
Siegel Howard is a professional actor and director with more than 25 years experience appearing at regional theatres from across Canada. Howard received a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award. Howard was formerly the Associate Director at Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary, and along with his partners at Big House Productions, he produced Men's Fest, Vancouver's festival of new plays about the changing role of men in the '90's. Theatre BC: Howard has served as a touring Theatre Consultant in both the Okanagan Zone and the Skeena Zone. He has also participated in the New Play Workshops as both a Reader and a Dramaturge in the Finalists' Round Tables and as a Regional Workshop instructor. This is Howard's second stint as a Competition Juror. His other connection to the Canadian National Playwriting Competition…Howard was member of the cast of the The Wild Guys here in Vancouver, a play which was a Finalist entry in the 1992 edition of the Competition. For Theatre BC, Howard has served as an Adjudicator several times, including the Fraser Valley, Central Interior, Yukon and Greater Vancouver Zone Festivals. |
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