Cinema & Media Arts
Colleen Wagner
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar
BIOGRAPHY
Colleen Wagner’s writing interests include screenplays, stage plays, poetry and short fiction. Her work has garnered numerous awards nationally and internationally, including the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her plays have been translated into numerous languages and produced in many countries, including China, Rwanda, Romania, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Portugal, England, the U.S. Selected stage credits include The Living, Audience Choice award at SummerWorks 2015; The Monument, GG winner and currently touring in China; Home, premiere in Halifax (2010); down from heaven, premiere in Montreal (2009) nominated for a MECCA award; The Morning Bird, toured NB in French and English (2005-6); Sand, shortlisted for best international play at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England. Her work has been published by Playwrights Canada Press, Scirocco Drama, Talonbooks and are found in several anthologies. She co-founded and was co-artistic director of The NotaBle Acts Theatre Company, Fredericton, NB from 2002-2007.
She wrote and directed a documentary film Women Building Peace, and an interactive website (www.thelivingplay.com), supported by a SSHRC research creation grant. The film screened in Rwanda, the Vancouver Film Festival and SilverWave Film Festival (best documentary award 2016); and a short film, Remembrance Day.
She has written a number of filmscripts for various producers and is currently working on new film script, a new play and a prose work. More info can be found at her website: www.colleenwagner.ca
Publications
| 2019 | The Living. Talonbooks, 2019 |
| 2011 | down from heaven. Playwrights Canada Press, 2011 |
| 2009 | The Morning Bird, Scirocco Drama Press, 2009 |
| 1996 | Sand, chapbook published by Playwrights Canada Press |
| 1996 | Eclipsed, chapbook published by Playwrights Canada Press |
| 1995 | The Monument, published by Playwrights Canada Press (6th printing) Winner of Governor Generals Award, 1996 Translated into French by Carole Frechette, 2000 Translated into German by Wilfred Schmidt, 2000 Translated into Mandarin by Wu Zhuhong, 2000 Translated into Portugese by Cristina Bizarro, 2006 Translated into Romanian. 2007 Translated into Kinyarwanda by Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi. 2008. Translated into Taiwanese, 2010. |
Publications in Anthologies |
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| 2010 | Pure Gold, Scenes From Canadian Plays Since 1990, Excerpts from The Monument. Edited by Brian Kennedy. Playwrights Canada Press. Toronto, ON. |
| 2009 | Canada and the Theatre of War, Volume II The Monument. Edited by Sherrill Grace and Donna Coates. Playwrights Canada Press. Toronto, ON. |
| 2008 | Young Women’s Monologues from Contemporary Plays #2, Excerpts from The Morning Bird. Edited by Gerald Lee Ratliff. Published by Meriwether Publishing Ltd. Colorado Spring, CO. |
| 2007 | Theatre Research in Canada, Volume 26, 1 & 2. Excerpts from The Morning Bird. Edited by Bruce Barton, Toronto, and Glen Nicols, Moncton. |
| 2006 | Canada on Stage: Scenes and Monologues, A survey of Canadian Theatre, Excerpts from The Monument. Edited by Iris Turcott and Keith Turnbull. Published by Playwrights Canada Press. |
| 2006 | He Speaks: Monologues for Men, Excerpts from The Monument. Edited by David Ferry. Playwrights Canada Press. |
| 2005 | The Monument, (translated in Mandarin), published by The Publishing House of Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Beijing, China. |
| 2004 | She Speaks: Monologues for Women, Excerpts from The Monument and The Morning Bird. Edited by Judith Thompson, Playwrights Canada Press. |
| 2003 | The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Vol. II, The Monument. Edited by Jennifer Wise and Craig S. Walker, Broadview Press. |
| 2002 | The Morning Bird, Excerpts published in Canplay, Playwright Union of Canada’s Quarterly periodical |
| 2000 | 7 Cannons. An anthology of plays. The Monument. Published by Playwrights Canada Press. |
| 2000 | Excerpts from The Morning Bird published in The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada’s International Literary Journal, Winter 2000, No. 206 |
| 1998 | The Fire, Published by Dandelion. Vol. 24 No. 1. 1997. (short story, part of manuscript in progress; Pilgrims) |
| 1985 | The Long Distance Runner. Poetry. Published by Acta Victoriana, Vol. 108, No. 1. |
Articles in Refereed Journals |
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| 1999 | “Family Politics”, review of the Governor General’s Award nominated play,Corker, by Wendy Lill. The Fiddlehead. Winter No. 202 |
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