Joanna Glass

Joanna McClelland Glass (born Joan Ruth McClelland, born October 7, 1936 in Saskatoon ) is a Canadian playwright.

Biography

Glass was a member of the Saskatoon Community Players after their high school graduation. As an employee of a radio station they übersuiedelte to Calgary, where she entered Betty Mitchell's Amateur Theatre Workshop 14. With a Performance at the Dominion Drama Festival in 1957, she won a scholarship to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. She then moved to New York.

1972 her first pieces (Canadian Gothic and American Modern) under the direction of Austin Pendleton at the Manhattan Theatre Club premiered. The Canadian premiere was at the Pleiades Theatre in Calgary held under Kenneth Dyba. Canadian Gothic was for the CBC (1974) and the BBC ( 1983) adapted and remained Glass' most successful play.

Other pieces were premiered in Canada and the United States. If We Are Women (the title is a quote from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One 's Own ) had at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts in 1993 premiere. The piece was then played, directed by Richard Olivier in Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton and in England with Joan Plowright. In addition, Glass also written two novels.

Works

Plays

  • Canadian Gothic, 1972
  • American Modern, 1972
  • Artichoke, 1975
  • To Grandmother 's House We Go, 1980
  • Play Memory, 1983
  • If We Are Women
  • Yesteryear, 1989
  • Trying, 2004

Novels

  • Reflections on a Mountain Summer, 1975
  • Woman Wanted, 1984

Swell

  • Joanna Glass in the Canadian Encyclopedia: English, French
  • Diana Bessai: Joanna M. Glass- Biocritical Essay
  • Author
  • Drama
  • Novel, epic
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1936
  • Woman
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