Don Hannah (born in Shediac, New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright and novelist.[1] He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play, The Wedding Script.[2]
He has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage Company, the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival, and was the inaugural Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. His other residencies include the University of New Brunswick, the Yukon Public Library, and Green College, University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of PARC, the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, and for five years was associate dramaturg at the Banff Centre Playwrights Colony. He had also worked as a dramaturg for Vancouver's Playwrights Theatre Centre. His novel Ragged Islands won the Thomas Head Raddall Award.[3]
In 2012 his play The Cave Painter received the Carol Bolt award.
His play, Resident Aliens, opened at Theatre New Brunswick in 2023.[4][5]