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| First Name | Jennifer Wynne |
| Last Name | Webber |
| Member Since | February 21, 2020 |
| Pen Name | Jennifer Wynne Webber |
| Branch Affiliation | Metro Vancouver (includes Victoria) |
| Website | www.jenniferwebber.com |
| @jenwynneweb | |
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| Bio | An award-winning playwright, Jennifer Wynne Webber writes and publishes in multiple genres and is the author of three books. Her first, a novel entitled DEFYING GRAVITY, was published in 2000 by Coteau Books and was subsequently nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year. Her stage play, BESIDE MYSELF was published by Scirocco Drama in 2001. Her most recent play, WITH GLOWING HEARTS: How Ordinary Women Worked Together to Change the World (And Did), was published by Scirocco Drama in 2019. That play has been produced at Vancouver Island’s TheatreOne, and at Saskatchewan’s Dancing Sky Theatre, where it was subsequently nominated for seven SATAwards (Saskatoon & Area Theatre Awards), ultimately winning the awards for both “Outstanding Production” and “Outstanding Original Script.” An earlier one-act version of the play also won the “Best of the Fest” Award at the 2016 Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival. Her play, “White Lies,” was published in the literary journal, Ryga and, under its former title “Whistling at the Northern Lights,” was also selected as one of Canada’s top five plays for Neue Theaterstücke aus Kanada, a Berlin-based Canada-Germany theatre playwriting competition. Two of Jennifer’s plays have also received Off-Broadway staged readings. Jennifer’s background includes thirteen years working as a CBC television journalist in Alberta and Saskatchewan, an honours degree in history from the University of Saskatchewan, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and many years spent working as a professional actor at theatres from Vancouver to Montreal. She now lives on Vancouver Island. |
| Publications | Books: WITH GLOWING HEARTS: How Ordinary Women Worked Together To Change The World (And Did) (play) Scirocco Drama, 2019 (164 pages) (Saskatoon & Area Theatre Award Winner, 2019 – “Outstanding Original Script”) ISBN-10: 1927922496 ISBN-13: 978-1-927922-49-1 BESIDE MYSELF (play) Scirocco Drama, 2001 (71 pages) ISBN-10: 1-896239-79-X ISBN-13: 978-1896239-79-8 DEFYING GRAVITY (novel) Coteau Books, 2000 (365 pages) (Nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards including Book Of The Year & First Book) ISBN-10: 1-55050-159-3 ISBN-13: 978-1550501-599 Online: WHITE LIES (play) Ryga: A Journal of Provocation. Summer 2014 (http://www.rygajournal.ca/ryga-7-summer-2014.html) |
| Other Memberships | Playwrights Guild of Canada |
| Awards | SHORTLISTED FOR FRED KERNER BOOK AWARD, 2020 - "WITH GLOWING HEARTS" Canadian Authors Association. Publisher: Scirocco Drama (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing) "OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCRIPT "– “WITH GLOWING HEARTS” Saskatoon and Area Theatre Awards (SATAs), Awarded Sept. 9, 2019, Saskatoon. “BEST OF THE FEST” – "WITH GLOWING HEARTS" SASKATOON FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL, 2016. NOMINATIONS, SASKATCHEWAN BOOK AWARDS, 2000 - "DEFYING GRAVITY" (Nominated in 2000 for three awards: Book of the Year; First Book Award (Brenda Macdonald Riches Award); Award for Publishing.) |
| Contests | QUARTERFINALIST, SCRIPTAPALOOZA INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION WRITING COMPETITION, 2009 (TV Spec script, Medium – “Coyote’s Dream”) NEUE THEATERSTÜCKE AUS KANADA, 2007 -- “WHISTLING AT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS” Selected as one of top five new Canadian plays (one of top three English language plays) in the 2007-2008 Canada- Germany theatre competition, Canadian embassy, Berlin. |
| Genres | Drama, Fiction, Playwriting, Scriptwriting |
| Available For | Readings, Presentations, Workshops, Book Club Meetings, Speaking Engagements |