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Russell-King, Caroline

Caroline Russell-King
Caroline Russell-King. Photo credit: Ben Laird.

Caroline Russell-King is an award-winning playwright who has written thirty plays which have had sixty productions across Canada and the US. She is a member and past vice president of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. She is published in five anthologies, and her latest trilogy of plays Palliser Suite was published by Frontenac House Press. Russell-Smith has adjudicated plays nationally for contests and publishing houses. She served on the board of the Alberta Playwrights’ Network and currently represents Western Canadian as ambassador for the Dramatist Guild of America. She co-wrote Strategies - The Business of being a Playwright in Canada (with Rose Scollard) published by the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Selma Burke (written with Maria Crooks) was a finalist in the 2022 Sharon Pollock Playwriting Competition and is scheduled for a professional production in the 2025/26 season. Her play High and Splendid Braveries was the winner of the Alberta Writers Guild Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for drama in 2023.

Other plays include Mr. Fixit which was produced at Lunchbox Theatre and nominated for a Betty Mitchell Theatre Award; and Second Chance, First Love, nominated for a Calgary Theatre Critics Award. Lunchbox Theatre also produced A Butler Did It (with music by Patrick R. Brown). Mounting Sex in the Afternoon Zone premiered at Solar Stage (Toronto) and went on to have eleven more productions across Canada including Lunchbox Theatre and Prime Stock Theatre.

Working as a professional dramaturg, she is the CEO and founder of Dramaturgy on Demand (www.dramturgyondemand.com), working weekly with playwrights in Canada and the US. Caroline Russell-King is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She has worked in new play development and as a freelance dramaturg and literary manager for thirty years. Her second non-fiction book is Do it Yourself Dramaturgy, 1001 Questions to ask yourself before sending out your play. She also teaches playwriting and leads The Artist Way groups at the Alexander Writers Centre.

As a freelance theatre critic, she pioneered the Postcard Review and Postcard Profiles as well as writing traditional interviews and articles. Caroline is a member of the International Theatre Critics Association and an adjudicator for the Calgary Theatre Critics Awards.

Website: www.carolinerussellking.com

Last updated 2023-06-27