Women in Canadian Theatre

[Moira Day]

Hi Louise,

I don't know how early you would want to go with pioneers, or if groups of
people rather than individuals can be credited, but I would suggest

Gwen Pharis Ringwood and Elsie Park Gowan as early Western Canadian playwrights
who developed a national and arguably an international profile

The Ursuline nuns who were the first women in Canada to produce and possibly
even write drama in the European tradition

The women provincial drama extension workers 1932-70. (Elizabeth Sterling
Haynes, Gwen Ringwood and Esther Nelson in AB, Esther Thompson and Edith
Sinclair in MB,Florence James and Mary Ellen Burgess in SK and Dorothy Somerset
in BC. And arguably Dora Mavor Moore as part of her long career.)


Quoting "Louise . Forsyth" <louise.forsyth at SHAW.CA>:

> Dear colleagues,
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> I have been invited to contribute articles to a 4-volume dictionary
> currently being prepared on women in theatre everywhere for the publishing
> house in Paris Des femmes. My contribution will be an overview of women in
> anglophone Canadian theatre and short pieces on 5-10 Canadian
> "personalities" from the past and the present: playwrights, directors,
> actors, technicians, stage managers, designers, costumers, artistic
> directors, etc.
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> Do you have suggestions for me of women in Canadian theatre who are/were
> outstanding artists and who have made a significant contribution and
> difference? I don't want to overlook anyone and Canada is a vast country
> with a significant history. My knowledge certainly has its limits and I
> thank you in advance for allowing me to draw on yours.
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> Thanks for your ideas and any names you can send me.
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> Louise Forsyth (louise.forsyth at usask.ca)
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