Morwyn Brebner

Morwyn Brebner’s debut play, Music for Contortionist, was co-produced by Tarragon Theatre and the Shaw Festival in 2000 and nominated for a Dora and a Chalmers award. Other plays at Tarragon include Liquor Guns Karate, Little Mercy’s First Murder (co-produced with Shaw, with composers Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli, winner of 7 Dora Awards, including outstanding new musical) and The Optimists (which was first produced at Theatre Junction in Calgary in 2004). Morwyn was co-writer (with Ken Finkleman and Ellen Vanstone) of At The Hotel for CBC Television.

Susan Coyne

Susan Coyne’s first book, Kingfisher Days, was published by Random House in 2001. She later adapted it as a play for the Tarragon. She has also adapted plays by Chekhov for Soulpepper Theatre Company (Platonov with Laszlo Marton) and the Shaw Festival (Three Sisters), and adapted Carol Shields novel Unless for CBC radio. Her latest play, Alice’s Affair, premiered at the Tarragon in 2005. She has been nominated for a Gemini and won a Writers Guild award for her work on the television miniseries Slings and Arrows (created and written with Bob Martin and Mark McKinney). She is a graduate of Queens University and the National Theatre School of Canada, and a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre Company.

Brendan Gall

Brendan Gall has written three plays: Panhandled (UnSpun Theatre), A Quiet Place (produced by his own company, Single Threat), and Alias Godot. Developed through Tarragon’s 2006 Playwrights Unit and translated into Italian for Teatro Della Limonaia’s Intercity Festival in Florence, Alias Godot had its English-Language/North American premiere in Tarragon’s Mainspace in 2008. Brendan has also contributed pieces to The Awesome Club Presents…"It’s Raining Fun!" (The Awesome Club), AutoShow and The Gladstone Variations (Convergence Theatre), co-created I Keep Dropping Sh*t (Small Wooden Shoe), Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and DON’T WAKE ME (UnSpun Theatre), and written the independent feature film Dakota (El Duo Motion Pictures). Brendan is currently working on an adaptation of Checkhov’s The Seagull, as well as UnSpun’s newest collective effort, The Red Room. He is also an actor.

Rosa Laborde

Rosa Laborde is an acting graduate of The Oxford School of Drama in England. She is a Dora nominated playwright and a recent finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for her play Lèo produced at Tarragon. Lèo was at The Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa and the Tarragon Production toured to Vancouver (The Firehall), Victoria (The Belfry) and Halifax (Neptune) in February/March 2008. Her previous play Sugar was named Outstanding New Play by NOW Magazine and is in development as a feature film. Other plays include Dish produced as part of LabCab at The Factory Theatre and The Source produced as part of Rhubarb! at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Rosa is currently completing the plays Hush and You and Me and Highways. Rosa is also an actress and most recently appeared in Theatre in her Shoes' Ablaze, Aluna Theatre's Madre and Seventh Stage's Whale Music. She has numerous television credits - most recently recurring roles on George F. Walker's The Weight as well as ReGenesis and History Bites. An Ottawa native, Rosa currently resides in Toronto.

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Hannah Moscovitch

Hannah's past writing for the stage includes her short works Essay, The Russian Play, USSR, and Mexico City, and her Dora-nominated full-length play, East of Berlin. Hannah's plays have been produced at The Factory Theatre, The Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Harbourfront Theatre as part of Hatch: Emerging Performance Projects, 2b theatre company (presented by Chester Playhouse) and Tarragon Theatre where she is currently playwright-in-residence. Upcoming, Hannah has been commissioned to create new works by a number of Canada's most exciting established and experimental theatre companies, including Prairie Theatre Exchange, Volcano Theatre, The Great Canadian Theatre Company, 2b theatre company and Company Theatre Crisis. East of Berlin returns to Tarragon Theatre in January of 2009, and then tours to Vancouver and Edmonton.