Thursday, October 25, 2012

Playwrights Guild of Canada Award Winners 2012



Last Monday, the Playwrights Guild of Canada presented its awards to playwrights at the inaugural Tom Hendry Awards at Stage West in Mississauga. Here are the winners:

  • Carol Bolt Award (best work premiered by a member): Don Hannah for The Cave Painter
  • New Musical Award: Lorne Elliott for Jamie Rowsell Lives
  • New Comedy Award: Michael Grant for Shorthanded
  • Lifetime Membership: Norm Foster (pictured above)
  • Post-Secondary Playwriting Competition: Leah Jane Esau for Disappeared

Also,Theatre Ontario presented the 2012 Maggie Bassett Award, which honours "an individual who, over a number of years, has made a sustained and significant contribution to the development of theatre in Ontario", to Dave Carley.

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