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Drama Anthologies (multiple Authors)

Beyond the Pale

Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers & Writers of Colour

edited by Yvette Nolan, Betty Quan & George Bwanika Seremba

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Mar 1996
Category
Anthologies (multiple authors), Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887545429
    Publish Date
    Mar 1996
    List Price
    $19.95

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About the authors

Yvette Nolan is a playwright, dramaturge, and director. In 1996, she was the Aboriginal Writer-in-Residence at Brandon University, where she wrote the first draft of Annie Mae’s Movement. Her other plays include BLADE, Job’s Wife, Video, the libretto Hilda Blake, and the radio play Owen. She is also the editor of Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour and co-editor of Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes. She was the president of Playwrights Union of Canada from 1998–2001, and of Playwrights Canada Press from 2003–2005. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father, raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she lived in the Yukon and Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto.

Yvette Nolan's profile page

Betty Quan has written and/or adapted over a dozen acclaimed plays for stage and radio. Mother Tongue was nominated for a Jessie Award for best new play, as well as the 1996 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Betty’s professional credits also encompass writing and story editing for film and television, and she has published fiction for young readers. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and is a member of both the Playwrights Union of Canada and the Writers’ Guild of Canada.

Betty Quan's profile page

George Bwanika Seremba's profile page

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