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Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman | |
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| Occupation(s) | Playwright, screenwriter, actress |
| Notable work | Almost a Full Moon |
| Spouse | J. Kelly Nestruck |
| Parent(s) | Carole Corbeil, Layne Coleman |
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and actress. Her 2008 play, Scratch, was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2009, was a prizewinner in the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition, [1] and was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. [2]
Guarded Girls, Corbeil-Coleman's 2019 play about women in the Canadian prison system, premiered at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto and then was performed in Kitchener-Waterloo at Green Light Arts, which had originally commissioned it. It received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play [3] and was shortlisted for the 2020 Governor General's Award for English-language drama. [4]
In 2022, Corbeil-Coleman's holiday musical Almost a Full Moon , based on Hawksley Workman's Christmas album of the same name, premiered at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton. [5] Her play The King James Bible Play will have its world premiere at the Stratford Festival in 2026. [6]
Corbeil-Coleman's other work as a playwright includes The End of Pretending (2001); Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show (2009); The CN Tower Show (2012); Sudden Death (2013) and Madame Minister (2024). She co-wrote Twisted (2015) with Joseph Jomo Pierre.
She has also been a writer for the Showcase drama King and the CBC Radio drama series Afghanada .
The daughter of novelist Carole Corbeil and actor Layne Coleman, [7] she has also had acting roles in television, including the series Blue Murder and Show Me Yours . In 2005 she appeared in the television film Mayday . She is married to journalist and critic J. Kelly Nestruck.
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