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]
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]