Anne Chislett
Anne Chislett | |
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Born | Margaret Anne Chislett (1942-12-22) December 22, 1942 (age 81) St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland |
Occupation | playwright |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 1970s-present |
Notable works | Quiet in the Land, The Tomorrow Box |
Anne Chislett (born December 22, 1942)[1] is a Canadian playwright.
Biography
Born and raised in St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland, Chislett studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of British Columbia.[1] She taught high school English and drama in Ontario before becoming a full-time playwright in 1980.[2] Chislett is a co-founder of the Blyth Festival[1] and was its artistic director from 1998 to 2002.[2]
Among her most famous pieces are The Tomorrow Box (1980) and Quiet in the Land (1981).[1] Quiet in the Land won both the Governor General's Award for Drama and the Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1983.[1] Her 1996 play Flippin' In won the Chalmers Canadian Play Award for Young Audiences.[2] 2000's Not Quite the Same was nominated for both Dora Mavor Moore and Chalmers awards.[2] Her works Yankee Notions and Venus Sucked In: A Post-Feminist Comedy were performed on the CBC Radio program Morningside.[1]
Chislett is on the advisory board of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.[2]
Bibliography
(Note: dates are of first productions)
- A Summer Burning (adapted from Harry J. Boyle's novel) (1977)
- The Tomorrow Box (1980)
- Quiet in the Land (1981)
- Another Season's Promise (with Keith Roulston) (1986)
- Half a Chance (1988)
- The Gift (1988)
- Yankee Notions (1992)
- Glengarry School Days (with Janet Amos) (1994)
- Flippin' In (1995)
- Then and Now (1997)
- Not Quite the Same (2000)
- Venus Sucked In: A Post-Feminist Comedy (radio play) (1991)
- No Sweat (2005)
- Another Season's Harvest (with Keith Roulston) (2006)
- The Perilous Pirate's Daughter (with David Archibald) (2007)
References
- ^ a b c d e f W. H. New, ed. (2002). "Anne Chislett". Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 204. ISBN 0802007619.
- ^ a b c d e Anne Chislett. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, April 28, 2010.
External links
- Anne Chislett at the Playwrights Guild of Canada
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- Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations (1981)
- John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982)
- Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land (1983)
- Judith Thompson, White Biting Dog (1984)
- George F. Walker, Criminals in Love (1985)
- Sharon Pollock, Doc (1986)
- John Krizanc, Prague (1987)
- George F. Walker, Nothing Sacred (1988)
- Judith Thompson, The Other Side of the Dark (1989)
- Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1990)
- Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar (1991)
- John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night (1992)
- Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas (1993)
- Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth (1994)
- Jason Sherman, Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1995)
- Colleen Wagner, The Monument (1996)
- Ian Ross, fareWel (1997)
- Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet (1998)
- Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy (1999)
- Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Rex (2000)
- Kent Stetson, The Harps of God (2001)
- Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918) (2002)
- Vern Thiessen, Einstein's Gift (2003)
- Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2004)
- John Mighton, Half Life (2005)
- Daniel MacIvor, I Still Love You (2006)
- Colleen Murphy, The December Man (2007)
- Catherine Banks, Bone Cage (2008)
- Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (2009)
- Robert Chafe, Afterimage (2010)
- Erin Shields, If We Were Birds (2011)
- Catherine Banks, It Is Solved by Walking (2012)
- Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays (2013)
- Jordan Tannahill, Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (2014)
- David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave (2015)
- Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl (2016)
- Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm (2017)
- Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom (2018)
- Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game (2019)
- Kim Senklip Harvey, Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story (2020)
- Hannah Moscovitch, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (2021)
- Dorothy Dittrich, The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key (2022)
- Cliff Cardinal, As You Like It: A Radical Retelling (2023)