Bio Caroline Russell-King

Caroline is an award-winning playwright who has written 32 plays which have had 62 productions across Canada and the USA. Her play, Selma Burke (with Maria Crooks), was a finalist for the Sharon Pollock Playwriting Competition, winner of The National Playwriting Competition, winner of The Betty Mitchel Theatre Award for Outstanding New Play and The Calgary Theatre Critics’ Award for Outstanding New Play Script. Last year she is proud to be the winner of the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, Writers’ Guild of Alberta for her play High and Splendid Braveries. She is a member and past vice president of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. She is published in five anthologies and her trilogy of plays Palliser Suite was published by Frontenac House Press. She is currently an ambassador for the Dramatist Guild of America. She co-wrote Strategies - The Business of being a Playwright in Canada (with Rose Scollard) published by the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Working as a professional dramaturg, she is the CEO and founder of Dramaturgy on Demand working weekly with playwrights in Canada and the USA. She is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and has adjudicated nationally for contests and publishing houses. As literary manager Caroline worked for three theatre companies in Calgary. Her second non-fiction book Do it Yourself Dramaturgy has just been published.

Working as a freelance theatre critic, she sees every professional show in her city and is a member of The International Association of Theatre Critics.