Rory Runnels helmed the Manitoba Association of Playwrights for 34 years, championing Manitoba plays and playwrights.
A New Englander by birth, Joan Ruvinsky moved to Montreal to study physics and, later, linguistics at McGill University. Joan was well known for her…
Bay Ryley is a writer and editor from Toronto.
Metis/Ojibway playwright and author Ian Ross was born in McCreary, Manitoba in 1968 and currently lives in Winnipeg.
Gord Rand is an actor and a writer. He has been on stages from San Francisco to Kigali.
Lara Rae is a writer and stand-up comedian. She is one of the co-developers of the internationally acclaimed comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Betty Quan has written and/or adapted over a dozen acclaimed plays for stage and radio.
David Paquet is a graduate in playwriting from the National Theatre School of Canada (2006) and lives in Montreal. His plays Porc-epic, 2h14, Appels entrants…
Jivesh Parasram is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator of Indo-Caribbean descent. He grew up in K’jipuktuk in Mi’Ma’ki (specifically Dartmouth, NS) and currently lives and…
Talia Pura teaches drama and theatre production at the University of Winnipeg. Previously, she spent many years in the public school system as a drama…