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Davies, Trina

Biography: 

Trina Davies is a playwright based in Vancouver BC Canada. Trina’s award-winning plays include Shatter, Multi User Dungeon, The Auction, and Waxworks. Her play The Romeo Initiative was a finalist for Canada’s top literary prize the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama 2012 and was the winner of the National Enbridge Prize for Established Artist. Her plays have been performed across Canada and in a number of other countries including the United States, Germany, Italy, and India. Her work has been translated into Italian and German. She has participated in artist residencies at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She is currently working on a commission for the Canada 300 project, as well as a play entitled The Bone Bridge (recent winner of the National Uprising Award for plays concerning social justice) and a commission from Theatre Calgary for Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell.

Trina is a member of the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Playwrights Theatre Centre and the Playwrights Guild of Canada. For more info: www.trinadavies.com

Professional Role(s): 
Playwright