Name Don Hannah | Role Playwright | |
Books Ragged Islands, The wise and foolish virgins, The Cave Painter and the Wood, While We're Young, Shoreline: Three Plays by | ||
Don Hannah | Off the Page Series 4 Program 7 | MSVU Archives Audio/Visual Collection
Don Hannah (born in Shediac, New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play, The Wedding Script.
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- Don Hannah Off the Page Series 4 Program 7 MSVU Archives AudioVisual Collection
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He has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage Company, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival, and was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. His other residencies include the University of New Brunswick, the Yukon Public Library, and Green College, University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of PARC, the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, and for five years was associate dramaturg at the Banff Centre Playwrights Colony. He had also worked as a dramaturg for Vancouver's Playwrights Theatre Centre. His novel Ragged Islands won the Thomas Head Raddall Award.
In 2012 his play The Cave Painter received the Carol Bolt award.