About Anne Chislett
Born 1942. Anne Chislett is a Canadian screenwriter, playwright and dramaturge.
Anne Chislett (born December 22, 1942) is a Canadian playwright.
Biography Born and raised in St. John's, Dominion of Newfoundland, Chislett studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of British Columbia. Chislett is a co-founder of the Blyth Festival and was its artistic director from 1998 to 2002.
Among her most famous pieces are The Tomorrow Box (1980) and Quiet in the Land (1981). Quiet in the Land won both the Governor General's Award for Drama and the Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1983. Her 1996 play Flippin' In won the Chalmers Canadian Play Award for Young Audiences. 2000's Not Quite the Same was nominated for both Dora Mavor Moore and Chalmers awards. Her works Yankee Notions and Venus Sucked In: A Post-Feminist Comedy were performed on the CBC Radio program Morningside.
Chislett is on the advisory board of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
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Anne Chislett was born on 22 December 1942 in St. John's.
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