Erin Shields

Pronouns: She/Her

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Website: https://www.erinshields.ca


Agent: Colin Rivers

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Photographer: Dahlia Katz

Erin Shields is a Canadian playwright best known for radical adaptations of classical texts which bring neglected female characters centre stage. Her additional text for Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at The Stratford Festival gives a voice to silenced Hero at the climax of the play. Queen Goneril, which premiered at Soulpepper Theatre in rep with King Lear, centres Lear’s stifled daughters as they contend for power in a world that insists they remain powerless. Erin’s illuminating and hilarious adaptation of Paradise Lost (Stratford Festival), won the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Playwriting. And her harrowing tragedy about sexual violence, If We Were Birds, won the Governor General’s Award for playwriting.

Other plays include: Jane Eyre (Citadel Theatre), Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Productions/Segal Centre), Beautiful Man (Factory Theatre), The Lady from the Sea (The Shaw Festival), The Millennial Malcontent and Soliciting Temptation (Tarragon Theatre) and Instant (Geordie Theatre). Upcoming: Ransacking Troy (Stratford Festival).

Erin’s plays are published by Playwrights Canada Press.

Plays Available at the Canadian Play Outlet:

Queen Goneril

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Beautiful Man & Other Short Plays

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If We Were Birds

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Mistatim and Instant

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Paradise Lost

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Soliciting Temptation

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