Colleen Curran

Theatre

Montrealer Colleen Curran writes funny plays and novels that are peopled with loveable and quirky characters in often-harried situations. One of the most popular of her almost two-dozen plays, Cake-Walk, about a cake-baking contest gone awry, has been produced more than 50 times across Canada and Whoopi Goldberg later acquired it for her Showtime TV series. Cake-Walk debuted at the Blyth Festival, the annual summer series of Canadian productions that has welcomed six of her plays, including the very popular Moose County and Miss Balmoral of the Bayview. Her play, Sacred Hearts, which she adapted for CBC Radio, won an international Gabriel Award, one of 10 playwriting awards she has earned. Curran is also a teacher at the National Theatre School and a novelist, publishing a trilogy of novels: Something Drastic, Overnight Sensation, and Guests of Chance. (PF)

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