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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada Colleen Murphy
Colleen Murphy’s new play The December Man (L’homme de décembre) premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects 2007 Enbridge playRites Festival. Upcoming productions are scheduled for Canstage (Toronto), the Citadel Theatre (Edmonton) and Greeen Thumb Theatre (Vancouver). At this summer's festival, she will direct local actors in a capsule version of The December Man. This searing drama on courage, heroism and despair explores the long privated shadow that public violence casts. In 2006-07 Murphy was the first Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Regina. Currently she is writing two plays Deliver Me and Birthday Boy, as well as an opera entitled The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. for Edmonton born composer Aaron Gervais. In Toronto she was a resident playwright at Tarragon Theatre for two years and at Necessary Angel Theatre Company for six years. Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Murphy twice won prizes in the CBC Literary Competition with Fire-Engine Red (85) and Pumpkin Eaters (90). Her first published play, Beating Heart Cadaver (98), was nominated for a 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award and a Chalmers Award. The Piper, which sports a cast of thirty, was published in 2004. Trained as an actress at Ryerson University and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, Murphy studied film directing at the Canadian Film Centre. Her distinctive films have been nominated for a total of eight Genie awards and include Putty Worm (93), The Feeler (95), Shoemaker (96), Desire (00), War Holes (02), and Girl with Dog (06) and Out in the Cold (07). Murphy is the President of the Board of Playwrights Canada Press, and is a
member of the Writer’s Guild of Canada, the Writers Union of Canada, the
Playwrights Guild of Canada, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, and the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. |
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For more information, contact word.festival@sasktel.net |
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