Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a Canadian playwright, theatre director, emcee, and arts administrator. She is a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, receiving nods at the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Gas Girls, and at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for Sound of the Beast.

Gas Girls also won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2010 for Best New Play in the independent theatre division, as well as an Enbridge PlayRites Award from Alberta Theatre Projects, and the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition. Her other plays have included Cake, The House You Build, and Salome’s Clothes.

Originally from the Grenadines, and is currently the Artistic Director of New Harlem Productions, which is an intercultural, interdisciplinary organization creating work that advances the craft, elevates allies, and engages with communities, employing practices "based on principles of humanity, joyfulness and solidarity."

Plays Gas Girls (2011) Salome's Clothes The House You Build Refractions: Solo (co-editor, 2014) A Man A Fish(2015) Indian Act: Residential School Plays (editor, 2018) Cake (2019) Sound of the Beast (2020) Refractions: Scenes (co-editor, 2020)