Maureen Hunter
Maureen Hunter is one of Canada’s most accomplished playwrights. Her work has been produced from coast to coast in Canada, in the U.S. and the U.K., and by CBC and BBC Radio. She has been short-listed for two Governor General’s Awards and two Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Outstanding New Play). Her play Transit of Venus became the first Canadian play ever produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. An opera version of Transit of Venus, for which she wrote the libretto, premiered at Manitoba Opera in 2007. Other plays include Wild Mouth, Atlantis, Vinci, The Queen of Queen Street, Beautiful Lake Winnipeg and Sarah Ballenden, which premiered April 20, 2017 at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.
