Susan Coyne

Susan Coyne is a Canadian writer and actor, best known as one of the co-creators and co-stars of the award-winning "Slings and Arrows", a TV series about a Canadian theatre company. In 2006, she won two Gemini Awards for her work on the show, one for best performance in a supporting role and one for best writing for a dramatic series (shared with her fellow co-creators). In 2007, she again won for writing, but lost to co-star Martha Burns in the acting category. She also won two Writers Guild of Canada awards, in 2006 and 2007.

A veteran of the Toronto theatre scene, she acted for several seasons at the Stratford Festival, was one of the founding members of the Soulpepper Theatre Company and is currently a playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre. Her two best-known plays are "Kingfisher Days", an adaptation of her critically-acclaimed memoir of the same name, and "Alice's Affair". The edition of this memoir that was published in america was titled "In the Kingdom of Fairies." It recounts her experiences in the summer of 1963 at her family's summer cottage on Lake of the Woods. She is also known for her translations of Anton Chekhov. Coyne also appeared in the Fernando Meirelles adaptation of the Jose Saramago novel "Blindness". k

Coyne comes from a prominent Canadian family: Her father is James Coyne, a former governor of the Bank of Canada, and her brother is the journalist Andrew Coyne. She is also the cousin of constitutional lawyer Deborah Coyne.

She is married to the actor and director Albert Schultz.

External links

* [http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/suddenlysusan.html CBC.ca profile of Susan Coyne] , May 2005
* [http://www.amazon.ca/s?search-type=ss&index=books-ca&field-author=Susan%20Coyne/ List of works at Amazon.ca]
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