Meet Conni!

Conni is an award-winning writer working in theatre, film and television. Recent stage credits include Dead Letter (Workshop West Playwrights Theatre), Fresh Hell (Shadow Theatre), Matara and The Invention of Romance, both premiered at WWPT, Oh! Christmas Tree (Roxy Performance Series), and her widely produced stage adaptations of W.O Mitchell’s Jake and the Kid and Bruce Allen Powe’s The Aberhart Summer. Conni has written several short films and worked as a screenwriter and story editor on television series such as Mentors, The Beat, North of 60, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, Taking it Off, Horse Warriors, and Family Restaurant.  Her published work includes seven plays and a full-length comic memoir, Roadtripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals. Her writing has been recognized by the Betty Mitchell Awards, the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, Alberta Film and Television Awards, Academy of Cinema and Television, Writers Guild of Alberta, Writers Guild of Canada, and the Alberta Playwrights Network Playwriting Contest. A recipient of a Queen’s Jubilee Medal (for contributions to the arts), she was also honoured as one of 100 people who have made a contribution to Alberta theatre in the last one hundred years.