Mansel Robinson
Mansel Robinson’s produced stage plays include Muskeg & Money, Thea, Two Rooms, Bite the Hand, Picking Up Chekhov, Scorched Ice, Street Wheat, Spitting Slag, Ghost Trains, Downsizing Democracy, The Heart as It Lived, Collateral Damage and Colonial Tongues and he was one of ten writers on Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show. He was shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize in Playwriting, and has been awarded the Uprising National Playwriting Award, the John Hicks Award, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award, the City of Regina Writing Award and the Saskatoon Fringe Audience Choice Award. He has been Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor, the Regina Public Library and the Surrey Public Library. Mansel now lives in a small cabin down-river from his hometown of Chapleau, in Northern Ontario.