Colleen Curran
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Colleen Curran’s professional playwriting career began when the Blyth Festival premiered her comedy Cake-Walk in 1984. It has been widely produced ever since across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Blyth would produce many more of her comedies such as Miss Balmoral of the Bayview, Local Talent, Moose County, Villa Eden and Ceili House. Her play Sacred Hearts won an International Gabriel Award and Maple Lodge won the Samuel French Best Canadian Comedy. She is also an actor as well as a novelist, she dramatized her novel Something Drastic about Montreal singing waitress Lenore Rutland, the latest production was in Melbourne, Australia. Her new novel Out for Stars made the Long List for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. Her many other plays include Ireland’s Own Carmel O’Riley Tonite!, Godot at the Coconut Grove, The Sunset Gals, and True Nature. She is also the creator of Kitty Calling.