Catherine Banks

Catherine Banks is a two-time Governor General's Literary Award winner for Bone Cage and It Is Solved By Walking. Her plays have garnered many awards including the Merritt Award for Best Play for Ship's Company and Eastern Front Theare's 2023 production of Downed Hearts. Catherine's plays have been performed in Canada, USA and Scotland; It Is Solved by Walking was translated into Catalan and toured Catalonia in 2012. Her body of work includes Miss N' Me; Three Storey, Ocean View and Bitter Rose; In This Light; Charmaine's Magic; The Hope Project, and her recent adaptation of Ernest Buckler's classic novel The Mountain and the Valley, which premiered in 2024. Catherine is a graduate of Acadia University, has taught playwriting at The Fountain School of the Performing Arts and Dalhousie University, and she holds the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary) from Mount St. Vincent University.