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'', April 14, 2010. She is best known for her play ''If We Were Birds'', which won the
Governor General's Award for English-language drama
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at the
2011 Governor General's Awards
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. The play premiered at the Summerworks Festival in 2008 before being mounted by
Tarragon Theatre
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in 2010.
Her other plays include ''Barrel Crank'', ''Montparnasse'' (cowritten with Maev Beaty), ''The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski'', ''The Epic of Gilgamesh (up to the part when Enkidu dies)'' and ''Soliciting Temptation'', and ''Beautiful Man''.
Her play ''Paradise Lost'', a theatrical adaptation of
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Paradise Lost
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'', was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the
2018 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018,Here We Are " a 90-minute audio poem piece to mark the first anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown."Here We Are" Crow's Theatre.