Banks, Catherine
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Catherine Banks was inspired to begin writing plays after she saw a production of Michel Tremblays Les Belles-Soeurs. Plays by Catherine Banks have been performed across Canada and include: It Is Solved By Walking; Bone Cage; Three Storey, Ocean View; and Bitter Rose, which aired on Bravo! Canada. Her work is poetic, darkly humorous, courageous, and beautifully theatrical, and her charactersLud in Three Storey, Ocean View and Clarence in Bone Cagehave been described as Atlantic Gothic. Bone Cage was showcased at the National Arts Centres On the Verge in 2005, premiered in 2007, and went on to win the Governor Generals Literary Award for Drama in 2008. It Is Solved By Walking won the Governor Generals Literary Award in 2012, was translated into Catalan by Tant per Tant, and was one of three Canadian plays to tour Catalonia in 2012. Catherine received Nova Scotias Established Artist Award for her body of work in 2008. Her newest play, Miss N Me, is about a small-town hairdresser who steals her husbands plumbing van to drive to New York to meet the American rapper Missy Elliot. Catherine is currently adapting Ernest Bucklers novelThe Mountain and the Valley for the stage.