Don Hannah

Don Hannah (born in Shediac, New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright and novelist.^[1] He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play, The Wedding Script.^[2]

He has been writer in residence at the University of New Brunswick, the Yukon Public Library and, most recently, was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. He is a founding member of PARC, the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, and for five years was associate dramaturg at the Banff Playwrights Colony. His novel "Ragged Islands" won the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.^[3]

Works

Plays

• The Wedding Script (1986)
• Rubber Dolly (1986)
• Undersea (1988)
• In the Lobster Capital of the World (1988)
• Love Jive (1989) with composer David Sereda
• The Wall in the Garden (1989)
• Wedlock (1990)
• Siren Song (1990) with composer David Sereda
• The Wooden Hill (1994)
• Running Far Back (1994)
• Fathers and Sons (1998)
• While We're Young (2008)
• There is a Land of Pure Delight (2008)
• The Woodcutter (2010)

Opera

• Facing South (2003) with composer Linda C. Smith

Novels

• The Wise and Foolish Virgins (1998)
• Ragged Islands (2007)

References

1. ^ "Award-winning playwright and novelist Don Hannah gives reading at UPEI February 15". News, Events & Publications. University of Prince Edward Island. 11 February 2008. http://news.upei.ca/node/4209. Retrieved 6 February 2011. 
2. ^ Robert Crew (30 January 1987). "Murrell wins top theatre award". Toronto Star. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/472492921.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+30%2C+1987&author=Robert+Crew+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Murrell+wins+top+theatre+award&pqatl=google. Retrieved 6 February 2011. 
3. ^ Stephanie Kukkonen (24 October 2008). "Author Don Hannah explores deathbed dreams". UNews. http://unews.ca/story/item/author-don-hannah-explores-deathbed-dreams/. Retrieved 6 February 2011. 

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