Raised in Ottawa, Douglas Bowie fell into a writing career when he entered a CBC TV contest on a whim while working for a local ad agency. His teleplay, Who Was the Lone Ranger?, won a top prize, and launched a thirty-year career, during which he has written a wide range of film and TV dramas. These include The Man Who Wanted To Be Happy, The Newcomers, The Boy in Blue (starring Nicolas Cage), Obsessed, the mini-series Chasing Rainbows, the Gemini Award-winning Love and Larceny, Grand Larceny, and the Christmas perennial Must Be Santa (starring Dabney Coleman). He won an ACTRA Award for the hit CBC miniseries Empire, Inc., and a Gemini Award for an outstanding body of work in television. He edited the book Best Canadian Screenplays, and added playwriting to his repertoire in the ’90s. His plays include the award-winning comedy The Noble Pursuit, !SGODSDOGS!, Goodbye Piccadilly, Love and Larceny (the musical), and Rope’s End. He lives in Kingston and is currently playwright-in residence at the Thousand Islands Playhouse.