Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerThe December Man (L’homme de décembre)Colleen MurphyDrama on courage, heroism, and despair exploring the long public shadow that private family violence casts....Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistIn Gabriel’s KitchenSalvatore AntonioAmazonLeoRosa LabordeAmazonThe Bombay Plays: The Matka King and Bombay BlackAnosh IraniAmazonWhat Lies Before UsMorris PanychAmazon

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerI Still Love YouDaniel MacIvor"Daniel MacIvors plays have been labelled everything from postmodern to metatheatrical, but these are cold terms that do nothing to capture the warm, accessible soul of a writer whose honesty and compassion for both audiences and his characters is at the ...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistAdapt or Die: Plays New and UsedJason ShermanAmazonCast IronLisa CodringtonAmazonIn a World Created by a Drunken GodDrew Hayden TaylorAmazonThe OptimistsMorwyn BrebnerAmazon

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerHalf LifeJohn MightonHad they previously met somewhere else under different circumstances? Why is their love so troubling for their children? Indeed, the light at dusk is sometimes warmer and more enveloping than that of the midday sun. Characters navigate between being and ap...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistChina DollMarjorie ChanAmazonCul-de-sacDaniel MacIvorAmazonThrough the EyesDon DruickAmazonTwo Words for SnowRichard SangerAmazon

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerGirl in the Goldfish BowlMorris Panych...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistRobert Chafe: Two Plays. Butler’s Marsh, Tempting ProvidenceRobert ChafeAmazonRune ArlidgeMichael HealeyAmazonThe Pochsy PlaysKaren HinesAmazonThe Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)Mieko OuchiAmazon

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerEinstein’s GiftVern ThiessenA scientist who enhances life with his work and knowledge but discovers too late that knowledge in the wrong hands brings death. The ideal of science to serve humanity is shown in sharp contrast against the reality of political will, nationalism, and war. ...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistBurning VisionMarie ClementsAmazonLast RomanticsMichael Lewis MacLennanAmazonProkBrian DraderAmazonRice BoySunil KuruvillaAmazon

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerOther Side of the GameAmanda ParrisIn this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy, strengthening their voices and demanding to ...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Shortlist1 Hour PhotoTetsuro ShigematsuAmazonThanks for GivingKevin LoringAmazonThe Fighting SeasonSean Harris OliverAmazonWhat a Young Wife Ought to KnowHannah MoscovitchAmazon

2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Winnercarried away on the crest of a waveDavid YeeFrom the shore of Ko Phi Phi in Thailand to a suburb in Utah to a mysterious Kafkaesque hole in the ground, carried away on the crest of a wave gives us brief glimpses into the lives of a sphinx-like escort, a grieving father, a conflicted priest, brothers...Amazon2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistMahmoudTara Grammy and Tom Arthur DavisAmazonOdd DucksBryden MacDonaldAmazonThe Gravitational Pull of Bernice TrimbleBeth GrahamAmazonWinners and LosersMarcus Youssef and James LongAmazon

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerPig GirlColleen MurphyDying Girl is in trouble; shes being held captive in a secluded barn by a serial killer. As she fights for her life, her sister tries to file a missing-persons report and draw police attention to the disappearance. With no evidence and little inclination...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistA Man A FishDonna-Michelle St. BernardAmazonConcord FloralJordan TannahillAmazonKill Me NowBrad FraserAmazonRefugeMary VingoeAmazon

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerIndian ArmHiro KanagawaThe Allmers live on native leasehold land in British Columbia, with their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations sixteen-year-old with cerebral hypoxia. Wolfie--caught in the middle of an intense, unhappy mother and a resigned father--is the pressur...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Shortlist1979Michael HealeyAmazonThe Colony of Unrequited DreamsRobert ChafeAmazonThe Virgin TrialKate HennigAmazonWithin the GlassAnna ChattertonAmazon

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerBotticelli in the Fire & Sunday in SodomJordan TannahillBotticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter of The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, as an irrepressible seeker of love and pleasure caught between the powerful Medici family, the firebrand teachings of a zealot friar, and his young lover, Leonardo ...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistGertrude and AliceAnna Chatterton and Evalyn Parry with Karin RandojaAmazonParadise LostErin ShieldsAmazonThe Men in WhiteAnosh IraniAmazonThis Is How We Got HereKeith BarkerAmazon