Frank Moher is a playwright, journalist, director, and teacher living on Gabriola island in BC. Born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1955, he twice won Edmonton's Sterling Award, for The Third Ascent in 1988 and Prairie Report in 1989. Odd Jobs, first produced by Catalyst Theatre and Theatre Network in Edmonton in 1985, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, won the 1992 Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award, and has been produced throughout North America and abroad, most recently in a series of Japanese-language productions. Supreme Dream (co-written with Rhonda Trodd) toured Canada, and his play Big Baby, first produced by Calgary's Alberta Theatre Projects in 2004, has also been seen in Los Angeles, Kosovo, Bucharest, and on a tour of Greece. Frank founded Western Edge Theatre in Nanaimo, BC...
Frank Moher is a playwright, journalist, director, and teacher living on Gabriola island in BC. Born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1955, he twice won Edmonton's Sterling Award, for The Third Ascent in 1988 and Prairie Report in 1989. Odd Jobs, first produced by Catalyst Theatre and Theatre Network in Edmonton in 1985, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, won the 1992 Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award, and has been produced throughout North America and abroad, most recently in a series of Japanese-language productions. Supreme Dream (co-written with Rhonda Trodd) toured Canada, and his play Big Baby, first produced by Calgary's Alberta Theatre Projects in 2004, has also been seen in Los Angeles, Kosovo, Bucharest, and on a tour of Greece. Frank founded Western Edge Theatre in Nanaimo, BC and was its artistic producer from 2002 through 2012. He also created the pioneering online scriptwriting workshop E-script, and the online play publisher ProPlay. As a journalist, he has written for publications including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Saturday Night magazine, The Georgia Straight, backofthebook.ca and salon.com. Frank teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Journalism at Vancouver Island University. His latest play, Run in Fields, premiered at Western Edge in Nov., 2017.