Trina Davies is a playwright based in Vancouver BC Canada. Trina’s award-winning plays include Shatter, Multi User Dungeon, The Auction, The Bone Bridge and Waxworks. Her play The Romeo Initiative was a finalist for Canada’s top literary prize the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama 2012 and was the winner of the National Enbridge Prize for Established Artist. Her plays have been performed across Canada and in a number of other countries including the United States, Germany, Italy, and India. Shatter opened to audience and critical acclaim Off Broadway in 2014.
Her work has been translated into French, Italian and German. She has participated in artist residencies at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Bella Vita Playwrights Retreat (Tuscany)...
Trina Davies is a playwright based in Vancouver BC Canada. Trina’s award-winning plays include Shatter, Multi User Dungeon, The Auction, The Bone Bridge and Waxworks. Her play The Romeo Initiative was a finalist for Canada’s top literary prize the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama 2012 and was the winner of the National Enbridge Prize for Established Artist. Her plays have been performed across Canada and in a number of other countries including the United States, Germany, Italy, and India. Shatter opened to audience and critical acclaim Off Broadway in 2014.
Her work has been translated into French, Italian and German. She has participated in artist residencies at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Bella Vita Playwrights Retreat (Tuscany). Her work-in-progress The Bone Bridge won the 2014 National Uprising Award for plays addressing human rights and social justice and the 2017 Woodward International Playwriting Prize. Her latest play Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell opened to audience and critical acclaim in January 2018, and is being presented as the season opener on the main stage of the 50th anniversary season of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in October 2018. She is currently working on a commission for a large regional theatre about the disappearance of theatre tycoon Ambrose Small.
Trina is a member of the Alberta Playwrights Network and the Playwrights Guild of Canada.