Joanna Glass

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

biography

Glass joined the Saskatoon Community Players after graduating from high school . She moved to Calgary to work on a radio station, where she joined Betty Mitchell's Amateur Theater Workshop 14 . With an appearance at the Dominion Drama Festival in 1957, she won a scholarship to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. She then moves to New York.

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

Other pieces 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 ) premiered at the 1993 Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts. The play was then performed in Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary and Edmonton and in England with Joan Plowright , directed by Richard Olivier . Glass also writes 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

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personal data
SURNAME Glass, Joanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glass, Joanna McClelland (full name); McClelland, Joan Ruth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian playwright
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Saskatoon