Sharon Pollock

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Sharon Pollock (born April 19, 1936) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Calgary, Alberta. She has been Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary (1984), Theatre New Brunswick (1988-90) and Garry Theatre, a company she herself founded in 1992.

[edit] Works

• Walsh - 1973
• The Kogomatua Maru Incident - 1978
• One Tiger to a Hill - 1980
• Generations - 1980
• Blood Relations - 1981 (winner of the 1981 Governor General's Award for Drama)
• Doc - 1986 (winner of the 1986 Governor General's Award for Drama)
• Whiskey Six Cadenza - (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Saucy Jack - 1994
• Fair Liberty's Call - 1995

[edit] Works On Pollock

• Anne Nothof, ed. Sharon Pollock: Essays on her Work, Guernica Press, 2000.
• Craig Stewart Walker, "Sharon Pollock: Besieged Memory," The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition, McGill-Queen's UP, 2001.

See also: List of Canadian writers, List of Canadian playwrights