Catherine Banks

Plays by Catherine Banks include Miss N’ Me; It Is Solved By Walking; Bone Cage; Three Storey, Ocean View; Bitter Rose, In This Light, and Downed Hearts. Bone Cage and It Is Solved By Walking won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2008, 2012 respectively. It Is Solved By Walking was translated into Catalan by Tant per Tant, and presented in Catalonia (2012). Downed Hearts premiered at Ship’s Company, a co-pro with Eastern Front Theatre and Matchstick theatre in 2023. Her adaptation of Ernest Buckler’s novel The Mountain and the Valley, premiering in 2024, is a Two Planks and a Passion/HomeFirst co-production. Catherine was on faculty member of Sage Hill Writing Retreat and gave the 2022 Robert Kroetsch Keynote. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from Mount Saint Vincent and has taught at the Fountain School of the Performing Arts. She received the Bra D’Or Award in 2023.

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