Don Hannah Explained

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)

External links

• Don Hannah's home page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Award-winning playwright and novelist Don Hannah gives reading at UPEI February 15 . 11 February 2008 . News, Events & Publications . . 6 February 2011.
2. News: Murrell wins top theatre award . Robert Crew . . 30 January 1987 . 6 February 2011 . 5 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121105125655/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/472492921.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+30,+1987&author=Robert+Crew+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Murrell+wins+top+theatre+award&pqatl=google . dead .
3. Web site: Author Don Hannah explores deathbed dreams . Stephanie Kukkonen . 24 October 2008 . . 6 February 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706211232/http://unews.ca/story/item/author-don-hannah-explores-deathbed-dreams/ . 6 July 2011 .
4. Web site: 'Resident Aliens' makes world premiere at TNB . theaquinian.net. 21 March 2023 .
5. Web site: Resident Aliens . www.tnb.nb.ca.