Christine Foster

Come Find Me, a twisted psychological suspense two-hander, was named a finalist in the Theatre BC New Play Contest in 2024, while her bioplay, Bess the Other Houdini, about the great magician's widow premiered in London in 2023 to four star reviews.

The magic-realism adventure, Off the Map, was a finalist in the 2022 Woodward/Newman New Play Competition and won the Susan Glaspell Award, receiving its World Premiere at Centenary Stage in New Jersey in 2023.

Other theatre work has been produced in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Mexico, Korea, the UK and the US (including book and lyrics for five musicals.) She has worked extensively as a television series story editor and written scripts for CBS, CTV, CBC, History and The Family Channel, one of which won a Silver Medal at the New...

Come Find Me, a twisted psychological suspense two-hander, was named a finalist in the Theatre BC New Play Contest in 2024, while her bioplay, Bess the Other Houdini, about the great magician's widow premiered in London in 2023 to four star reviews.

The magic-realism adventure, Off the Map, was a finalist in the 2022 Woodward/Newman New Play Competition and won the Susan Glaspell Award, receiving its World Premiere at Centenary Stage in New Jersey in 2023.

Other theatre work has been produced in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Mexico, Korea, the UK and the US (including book and lyrics for five musicals.) She has worked extensively as a television series story editor and written scripts for CBS, CTV, CBC, History and The Family Channel, one of which won a Silver Medal at the New York International Film and Television Awards. She also co-founded Cliffhanger Productions in Toronto which brought world mythology to family audiences and won a coveted Dora Mavor Moore Award. She was the first artistic director of The Diez Minutos Festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where she also directed several mainstage productions. She has taught playwriting in Canada, Mexico and at the Devon Academy for the Performing Arts in the UK and has had two new adaptations of Kipling's works produced in England, including the hit pub plays series Mixed Doubles, with premieres of several new ten minute plays both on stage and on radio (one of which won the 2018 Marion Thauer Brown Award for Best New Audio Drama.) Her full length “Four Thieves Vinegar” (about the Black Death) received four star reviews during its three week run in London in 2017 and enjoyed a sell-out remount at the Brighton Fringe in 2019. while her bio-play about Kenneth Grahame, "Lost in the Willows" toured the UK in 2022. She is currently working on the World Premiere of "Bess - The Other Houdini" about the widow of the famous illusionist.

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