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 playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage Company, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival, and was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. His other residencies include the University of New Brunswick, the Yukon Public Library, and Green College, University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of PARC, the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, and for five years was associate dramaturg at the Banff Centre Playwrights Colony. He had also worked as a dramaturg for Vancouver's Playwrights Theatre Centre. His novel Ragged Islands won the Thomas Head Raddall Award.^[3]

In 2012 his play The Cave Painter received the Carol Bolt award.

His play, Resident Aliens, opened at Theatre New Brunswick in 2023.^[4][5]

Works

Plays

Full Length

• The Wedding Script (1986)
• Rubber Dolly (1986)
• In the Lobster Capital of the World (1988)
• Love Jive (1989) with composer David Sereda
• 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)
• The Cave Painter (2011)
• Resident Aliens (2023)

Shorts

• Firing Francine (1985)
• Undersea (1988)
• The Wall in the Garden (1989)
• Wedlock (1990)

Opera

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

Novels

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

References

External links

• Don Hannah's home page