Representation (Fiction):
Anne McDermid & Associates
83 Wilcocks Street
Toronto, ON M5S 1C9
http://www.mcdermidagency.com
Send inquiries to info [at] mcdermidagency [dot] com
Representation (Theatre):
Michael Petrasek
Kensington Literary Representation
54 Wolseley Street
Toronto, ON M5T 1A5
kensingtonlit [at] rogers [dot] com
416 979 0187
Email:
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
Don Hannah lives in Toronto and Lunenburg County. His novels, The Wise and Foolish Virgins (Thomas Raddall Nomination) and Ragged Islands (2008 Thomas Raddall winner) are published by Knopf Canada. His plays include The Wedding Script (Chalmers Award), Rubber Dolly, Running Far Back, The Wooden Hill (AT&T OnStage Award), and Fathers and Sons. Shoreline, a collection of his plays, is published by Simon and Pierre and is available through U of T Press. He has been writer in residence at the Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian Stage Company, the University of New Brunswick, and for the Yukon Public Library Service. He was the inaugural Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta where he wrote While We're Young, recently published by Playwrights Canada Press. He has written two musicals with singer/songwriter David Sereda, Love Jive and Siren Song, both for the Tarragon Theatre. Facing South, his opera, with composer Linda Catlin Smith, premiered at the 2003 World Stage Festival. For five years he was the director of the Tarragon Young Playwrights Unit. As a dramaturge, he has worked at the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC), the National Theatre School, Vancouver's Playwrights Theatre Centre, and the Banff Playwrights Colony. A founding member of PARC, he is also a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. In 2008, he directed his play There is a Land of Pure Delight at Live Bait Theatre; his one man show The Woodcutter was produced in 2010 at the Working Title Festival in Edmonton. He is currently working on a second one person show, The Cave Painter.
- While We're Young. Playwrights Canada Press. ISBN 978-0887548772.
- "This fabulous, complex play" - Kim McCaw, from the introduction
- Ragged Islands. Knopf Canada, ISBN 978-0-676-97791-2. Vintage Canada, ISBN 978-0-676-97792-9.
- "This is a book of rare poetry, with many points at which one must stop to reflect. [...] Death is the last great, private adventure, and Hannah helps us come to grips with that difficult fact." - Quill & Quire
- The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Vintage Canada, ISBN 978-0-676-97199-6.
- "A lovely novel that poses fundamental questions about forgiveness [...] Hannah writes daringly about people who have misshapen and tortured lives; he writes about them with spicy humour, and a compassionate understanding for their failings." - The Financial Post
- Shoreline: Three Plays.
- Rubber Dolly, Running Far Back, Fathers and Sons. With an introduction by Urjo Kareda, Simon & Pierre, ISBN 0-88924-290-9
- "Don Hannah's plays are full of the emotions one cannot bear to feel, yet must. Somehow, through the plainness of his voice, he makes them more than bearable: he makes them fiercely beautiful." - Pauline Kael
- Voices from France. Edited by Maureen LaBonte, Banff Centre Press, ISBN 1-894773-25-X.
- Five French plays in translation, includes Le Phare by Timothe de Fombelle, English Version, The Lighthouse, by Don Hannah, from a line, translation by Glen Nichols.
- "A powerful rendering of this tale of painful solitude, illuminated by hopeful and idealistic innocence." - Linda Gaboriau
- In The Lobster Capital of The World. Playwrights Canada, ISBN 0-88754-490-a CIP
