Rose Scollard
Born in Belfast N. Ireland, and raised in southern Ontario, Rose Scollard was co-founder, with Nancy-Jo Cullen and Alexandria Patience, of Maenad Productions, western Canada’s first woman-centred theatre.
Stage plays include: Shea of the White Hands, “Tristan and Isolde” set in the political turmoil of seventies Belfast, short-listed for the Susan Smith-Blackburn Prize, 1995; Caves of Fancy, featuring Mary Shelley, her mother, and her “monster”, presented at an international Shelley/Wollstonecraft conference at the University of Calgary, 1997; Firebird, translated into German and produced by Freie Kammerspiele of Magdeburg, Germany (2003).
Radio dramas include: The Man Who Collected Women, which won the Alberta Culture/CBC Write For Radio Competition 1988; Birdie French Private Investigator; Victory Matinee, a live component of a World War Two exhibit, Glenbow Museum, Calgary. An anthology of radio plays Love and War Western Style was published by the University of Calgary’s Brave and Brilliant Series, 2025.
