Len Falkenstein
Len Falkenstein is Director of Drama at the University of New Brunswick, where he teaches courses in theatre and playwriting. He is also Artistic Director of the NotaBle Acts Theatre Company, which develops and produces new plays by New Brunswick playwrights, and Fredericton’s outdoor Shakespeare company, Bard in the Barracks. Len’s plays, many with an environmental/political focus, have been produced across Canada at Toronto’s SummerWorks Performance Festival and numerous Fringe festivals, and locally at Theatre New Brunswick, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival and the Saint John Theatre Company. They include Wood Buffalo (Theatre New Brunswick, 2023), Lac/Athabasca (second prize winner, Herman Voaden national playwriting competition; published by Playwrights Canada Press), Utopia (second prize winner, Ottawa Little Theatre one act playwriting competition), Doppelgänger (published in Ryga, volume 1), Free/Fall, and Happy City. Len is a native of Macklin, Saskatchewan and holds a Ph.D from the University of Alberta.
