Joan Bryans

location_on British Columbia, CA

Joan’s retirement as an academic philosopher saw her concentrate on her other love, theatre. As well as continuing to act, she began to direct and then write. Her first play, an adaptation of Constance Skinner’s Birthright, ran in Vancouver in 2003 and was subsequently published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2004. Since then, she has continued to write, specializing in plays about strong, feisty women battling against the odds to achieve success.

All her plays have been produced in Vancouver, with occasional short tours, and have been very well received. Her heroines range from militant suffragettes to a rebel Irish Countess, to a Vancouverite accused of murder at the Old Bailey, to feisty Nova Scotian pioneers. She continues to be inspired by these amazing women of the past.

Plays Available at the Canadian Play Outlet:

By Some Divine Mistake

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Two Years in Nicola

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Changed Utterly

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Rebel Women

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