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1998 Winners Photos
& Bios
Lindsay Price / Maryjane Cruise / Natalie D. Meisner
1998 Winner - Full
Length |
Lindsay Price is the
co-artistic director of Theatrefolk, a theatre company based out of Toronto, Ontario. She
has written and directed for the company. Her latest project involves a cross-Canada tour
of her play The Flying Bandit, the story of Canadian criminal, Ken Leishman.
Other plays she has written for Theatrefolk include: Galileo: The Starry Messenger,
an adaptation of The Tempest, and a one-man version of A Christmas Carol. Described as "potent and relevant to our time," and "thoughtful, funny and insightful," Lindsay's plays have been performed by amateurs and professionals alike. This year a production of her play, This Phone will Explode at the Tone was invited to the International Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. Lindsay has received outstanding recognition for her plays. Tuna Fish Eulogy won first prize in the 56th. Annual Canadian One-Act Playwriting Competition in 1995 and her monologue Flashbacks took first prize in the Nu-Now Competition sponsored by Nipissing University in 1996. |
1998 Winner - One Act |
Maryjane Cruise
was born and raised in Welland, Ontario and graduated from Brock University. As well as a
playwright, she is a published composer of choral music and the lyricist and librettist of
a new original musical called Albert Street, which is in its eighth year of
development. She is a former school teacher who enjoyed her involvement in music and dramatic arts productions. Maryjane resides in Grimsby, Ontario where she lives with her husband and three children. AWARDS: |
1998 Winner - Special Merit |
Natalie D.
Meisner is originally from Nova Scotia. Her first book, Growing Up Salty
& other plays (Roseway Publishing Co.) contains plays that were written for and
performed by Chestnut Tree Theatre, a Halifax based collective for whom she was a writer,
director, performer and founding member from 1993-1996. Meisner has a BA in English from
Dalhousie University, studied at the National Theatre School, and is completing a MFA in
Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia. Ongoing projects include a rewrite
of Take 2, a one act play set in the 1940's that toured the Canadian Fringe
Festival circuit in the summer of 1998, and Fly a one act play which is
shortlisted to be commissioned by Calgary's Lunchbox Theatre. New projects include a full
length stage play entitled Shelter and a feature length screenplay, Scorched
Earth. AWARDS: |
