Beverley Cooper

Beverley Cooper is a Canadian actor, director, dramaturg, and playwright who works in film, radio, television, and theatre.

Acting Cooper trained in acting and graduated from Studio 58 in Vancouver in 1979.

Cooper went on to initiate such notable roles as Juliet in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), a Canadian feminist theatre classic first produced in 1988 by Toronto's Nightwood Theatre,

Writing Cooper is most well-known as a playwright. She graduated from the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Guelph in 2013. which was a shortlisted Governor General's Award nominee for the English-language drama in 2009. It was a sold-out hit at the Blyth Festival in 2008 and 2009, moving on to play Ottawa's National Arts Centre in 2013. Another notable work is Janet Wilson Meets the Queen, which was nominated for the Prix Rideau Award.

Writing credits for television include episodes of Ready or Not, Sesame Park, and Street Legal. Psychic Driving (radio drama) Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Madhouse Out of Body Thin Ice (co-written with Baņuta Rubess) The Super Adventures of Mary Marvelous (radio drama) The Woman in White The Lonely Diner: Al Capone in Euphemia Township It Came from Beyond! Janet Wilson Meets the Queen The Other: A Strange Christmas Tale