Louise Casemore

LOUISE CASEMORE is an artist advocate, prairie nuisance, and two-time Sterling Award winning playwright. Based in Alberta on Treaty 6 and 7 Territory, she is the recipient of the ATP/Enbridge Playwright’s Award, was shortlisted for the inaugural John Palmer Award from the Playwright’s Guild of Canada, and is a 2023 Edmonton Artist Trust Fund honoree. Original plays include OCD (Canadian tour), Functional (Found Festival, IGNITE!), GEMINI (Chinook Series, High Performance Rodeo), and Undressed (Alberta Theatre Projects). Louise remains active in the wider community by way of dramaturgy, teaching, and sector research; and in 2021 she released the long-range national study on new play development, “Surveying The Landscape” (commissioned by Alberta Playwright’s Network). She is a member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada, LMDA, the Citadel Theatre Dramaturgy Lab, and completed an MFA in Theatre Practice with a specialization in Playwriting for Immersive Theatre from the University of Alberta.