Erin Shields
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Occupation | actress, playwright |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2000s-present |
Notable works | If We Were Birds, Paradise Lost |
Erin Shields is a Canadian stage actress and playwright.[1] She is best known for her play If We Were Birds, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2011 Governor General's Awards,[2] and was a nominee for the 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play.[3] The play premiered at the Summerworks Festival in 2008 before being mounted by Tarragon Theatre in 2010.[1]
Her other plays include Barrel Crank,[4] Montparnasse (cowritten with Maev Beaty),[5] The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski,[6] The Epic of Gilgamesh (up to the part when Enkidu dies) and Soliciting Temptation,[7] and Beautiful Man.[8]
Her play Paradise Lost, a theatrical adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.[9]
In 2021, she wrote "Here We Are," a 90-minute audio poem piece to mark the first anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Playwright Erin Shields nurtures two new creations". Toronto Star, April 14, 2010.
- ^ "Three Toronto writers take home Governor General’s awards (two, somehow, for “bird” books)". Toronto Life, November 15, 2011.
- ^ "Eric Peterson’s stagecraft brings three Dora nominations". Toronto Star, June 2, 2010.
- ^ "A work in progress". St. Catharines Standard, August 8, 2012.
- ^ "Theatre Review: Of models and nude muses in Montparnasse" Archived 2014-11-20 at archive.today. National Post, March 26, 2011.
- ^ "Masha mashup". Now, November 29, 2007.
- ^ "Theatre Review: Soliciting Temptation is the season’s best new Canadian play" Archived 2014-11-20 at archive.today. National Post, April 13, 2014.
- ^ Sumi, Glenn (5 August 2015). "SummerWorks Preview: Erin Shields flips the gender switch". NOW. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ^ "The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.
- ^ "Here We Are". Crow's Theatre.
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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)
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