Interviewee Bio – Catherine Banks

Catherine Banks

Plays by Catherine Banks have been performed across Canada and include: Miss N’ Me; It Is Solved By Walking; Bone Cage; Three Storey, Ocean View; and Bitter Rose, which aired on Bravo! Canada. Her work is poetic, darkly humorous, courageous, and beautifully theatrical. Bone Cage premiered in 2007, and went on to win the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2008. It Is Solved By Walking won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2012, was translated into Catalan by Tant per Tant, and was one of three Canadian plays to tour Catalonia in 2012. She is currently adapting Ernest Buckler’s novel The Mountain and the Valley for the stage, and is writing a new play, Downed Hearts that is slated for production in 2023.

https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Authors/B/Banks-Catherine
https://playwrightsguild.ca/paupress/profile/catherine-banks/view/
https://www.jgshillingford.com/banks-catherine/