Kathleen Flaherty is the Dramaturg at Playwrights Theatre Centre and a former producer of drama and documentary for CBC Radio. She has a BA in political science, a BFA in theatre and MFA in directing. Her dramaturgical work in the theatre began in the early 1980s and included work with Catalyst Theatre, Cahoots, Factory Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Nightwood and Theatre New Brunswick as well as dramaturgy, producing and directing original works for independent small theatre production, Fringe production, her friend’s garage production. She has collaborated with hundreds of writers including Beverley Cooper, Michael Riordon, Adrienne Wong, Kwame Dawes, Ian Weir, Jason Sherman, Carol Shields, Betty Kwan, Marie Clements, Myrna Kostash and Thomas King. She has an addiction to detective fiction and creative non-fiction. She has an opinion on everything.

theatre directing and dramaturgy, radio drama, radio documentary

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English