Author Bio – Hope McIntyre

Hope McIntyre

Hope McIntyre is an award winning playwright and director, as well as an Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg (Treaty 1 Territory). She has a BFA in performance (University of Saskatchewan) and an MFA in directing (University of Victoria). She completed an apprenticeship at ARTTS International in England, before working for a commercial producer and managing a school for the arts in Toronto. She was the founding Artistic Director of Sarasvàti Productions, a company dedicated to social change that she helmed for 22 years. During this tenure she produced FemFest (an annual festival) and developed community-based play creation methods. She has received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award, the Bra D’Or, the Women Helping Women Award, and Mahatma Gandhi Social Change Award. She is also a former President of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. www.hopemcintyre.ca