Marie Beath Badian is an award-winning, Filipino-Canadian writer and playwright based in T’karonto [Toronto, Ontario, Canada].
Recently, The Waltz was named The Globe and Mail’s Critic’s Pick and included in its Top Ten Toronto Productions of 2022. Her play Common: A Trilogy is the 2022 Recipient of The Playwright Guild of Canada’s Tom Hendry Award for New Drama. She was co-nominated along with Romeo Candido for a 2022 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing/Web-series for Topline on CBC Gem.
Her other plays include The Waltz, Prairie Nurse, The Best Friend Blanket Fort Show, The Making of St. Jerome, Mind Over Matter, and Novena.
Marie Beath is a two-time alumnus of The Banff Playwrights Lab and joined the faculty as the 2024 Playwright in Residence. She has developed work in the playwright units of Cahoots Theatre Company, Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Playwrights Circle and The Factory Theatre. She was the Playwright-in-Residence at fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company, Project:Humanity and The Blyth Festival.
Her plays Prairie Nurse and The Waltz are part of a multi-generational trilogy spanning fifty-years, set in rural Saskatchewan. The third play, The Cottage Guest, is in development. All three are commissioned by The Blyth Festival Theatre.
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