Sharon Pollock

Sharon Pollock

Sharon Pollock (born April 19, 1936) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Calgary, Alberta. She has been Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary (1984), Theatre New Brunswick (1988-90) and Garry Theatre, a company she herself founded in 1992. In 2007, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Works

*"A Compulsory Option" - 1971
*"Walsh" - 1973
*"And Out Goes You" - 1975
*"The Kogomatua Maru Incident" - 1978
*"One Tiger to a Hill" - 1980
*"Generations" - 1980
*"Blood Relations" - 1981 (winner of the 1981 Governor General's Award for Drama)
*"Doc" - 1986 (winner of the 1986 Governor General's Award for Drama)
*"Whiskey Six Cadenza" - (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
*"Saucy Jack" - 1994
*"Fair Liberty's Call" - 1995

Works On Pollock

*Anne Nothof, ed. "Sharon Pollock: Essays on her Work", Guernica Press, 2000.
*Craig Stewart Walker, "Sharon Pollock: Besieged Memory," "The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition", McGill-Queen's UP, 2001.

See also: List of Canadian writers, List of Canadian playwrights


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