HOPE McINTYRE
Hope
is originally from Saskatoon, where she grew up and received her BFA in
theatre performance. She then received her MFA in directing at the University
of Victoria, spent a year apprenticing as a performer in England and three
years working in theatre in Toronto before resettling in Winnipeg. Hope is in
her fifth year as Artistic Director of Sarasvàti Productions. Her own scripts
"Revisioning" and "Hunger" were produced by the company in Toronto. As
well, her script "Missiah" received a public workshop. Since its
premiere, "Hunger" has been published in Meriwether Publishing's International
Plays for Young Audiences and has been remounted in Winnipeg. Hope's play "Death of Love" won
UNI Theatre's International Playwriting Contest in 2000 and received a public
workshop in June 2002. Her play "Trauma" won Theatre in the Raw's
One-Act Play competition and was produced in Vancouver in November 2001. “Revisioning” has
recently been published in chapbook form by One Act Play Depot and also been
named runner-up of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award 2002. Hope is also Chair of The Women’s Caucus for
the Playwrights Guild of Canada and Outreach Director for the International
Centre for Women Playwrights.
Complementing her work as a playwright, Hope continues to freelance as a
director and performer, as well as teaching theatre to youth and adults. She
has taught at Prairie Theatre Exchange Theatre School, completed two years as Crake Fellow in
Drama at Mount
Allison University and is currently completing a one-year
contract at Brandon
University.
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