Jennifer Wise

Jennifer Wise is an award-winning playwright and associate professor emeritus at the University of Victoria. Her translation of Brecht’s Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, published by Methuen in London (UK), has been staged around the world. Known for her clever versions of Aristophanes (Frogs, for UVic and the University of Denver; Lysistrata, for Bard on the Beach, and Birds, for the Dan School of Drama and Music), she also writes site-specific history plays, including Girl Rabbi of the Golden West, which won the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition, and A Queer Trial, a finalist in the Canadian Playwriting Competition. Orbit, written for the International Year of Astronomy, about the daughters of Galileo, was a finalist for the Herman Voaden Prize. Her libretto for The Refugees was created for Iranian-Canadian composer Afarin Mansouri and funded by the Canada Council.