Biography of Winn Bray

Winn Bray - Director / Playwright / Lyricist. Winn Bray has been a professional playwright for many years and maintains a strong commitment to quality work for young audiences and in particular, Theatre in Education. As an actor she performed throughout Ontario as well as in NSW Australia, most notably in the one woman show BELLE OF AMHERST. In Alberta, Ms. Bray has had many works produced including ALBERTA ROSE, a play dealing with the settling of Alberta which was commissioned and toured by the Mount Royal College Theatre Program in 2002 and supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She conceived, wrote and co-produced the in-school production, J.S. BACH, and the Jack Singer Concert Hall production, JOHANN AND THE KING, for the Calgary International Organ Foundation (CIOF) and Ms. Bray wrote THE BACH CONSPIRACY for the CIOF 2000/2001 season which was staged by Quest Theatre, Calgary. In November of 2000, EVANGELINE, a musical by Winn Bray and Tom Doyle, was produced by the Chair Douglas J. Rathbun and the Mount Royal College Theatre Department as part of the Conservatory's 90th Anniversary celebrations. In May of 2003, EVANGELINE was given a professional reading at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton with the support of Alberta Playwrights Network and Canadian Actors Equity Association. Lyricist work includes songs by Doyle and Bray for Vern Thiessen's shows DAWN QUIXOTE (Quest Theatre - first production, Geordie Theatre, Globe Theatre) and ON THE LINE (Quest Theatre - first production. Recipient of the Excellence In The Arts Award (Hamilton) her work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Mount Royal College, Alberta Playwrights Network, the Citadel New Play Development Program, DuFort Enterprises, Theatre South NSW and the Private Sector .