Colleen Wagner (born in Elk Point,

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)Jennifer Wise & Craig S. Walker, ''The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Vol. II: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries''.

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, 2003. . p. 622. is a

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playwright. She is best known for her 1995 play ''The Monument'', which won the

Governor General's Award for English-language drama The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided. Because the awa ...

at the

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."The Monument: a stark reminder of Rwanda's tragedy"
'' The Globe and Mail'', April 28, 2011. Her other plays have included ''Sand'' (1989), ''Eclipsed'' (1991), ''The Morning Bird'' (2005), ''Down from Heaven'' (2009) ''Home (2010) and 'The Living' (2019). Wagner was educated at the

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and the

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. She is an associate professor of

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in the film studies department at

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Colleen Wagner
faculty page at

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