Anna Chatterton is a

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playwright,"Chatterton, Anna"
''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', August 7, 2016. who was shortlisted for the

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at the

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for her play ''Within the Glass''. She was educated in theatre at

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, and in creative writing at the

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, before becoming playwright in residence at

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in 2011. Her first play, ''Quiver'', was written as her master's thesis for her MFA at Guelph. ''Within the Glass'' premiered at Tarragon in 2016. She is also a regular collaborator with

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and Karin Randoja in the theatre collective Independent Aunties. Their plays as a collective have included ''Francesca, Mathilda and Tea'', ''The Mysterious Shorts'', ''Clean Irene and Dirty Maxine'', ''Breakfast'' and ''Gertrude and Alice''. ''Gertrude and Alice'' was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the

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., Chatterton's play ''Cowgirl Up'' premiered at

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in October 2022.

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