Catherine Banks

Catherine Banks
Occupationplaywright
NationalityCanadian
Period2000s-present
Notable worksBone Cage, It Is Solved By Walking

Catherine Banks is a Canadian playwright. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, in 2008 for Bone Cage and in 2012 for It Is Solved By Walking.[1]

She resides in Sambro, Nova Scotia, a rural community within the Halifax Regional Municipality.[2]

Her other plays have included Three Storey, Ocean View, Bitter Rose and Miss'n Me. Her latest project involves adapting Ernest Buckler's novel The Mountain and the Valley for the stage.[3]

Banks has cited Michel Tremblay and María Irene Fornés as being among her literary inspirations.[3]

Her play Bone Cage was adapted by actor and director Taylor Olson for the 2020 theatrical film Bone Cage.[4]

  1. ^ "Nova Scotia's Banks among Governor General's Award winners". The Chronicle Herald, November 13, 2012.
  2. ^ "Sambro playwright nominated again for Governor General's award". The Chronicle Herald, October 2, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Brunet, Julien Russell. "Catherine Banks: The Governor General's Literary Awards interview series". The Walrus. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  4. ^ Morgan Mullin, "Trapped inside a Bone Cage". The Coast, September 22, 2020.