The Women's Script Writing Circle started in November 2024 to encourage more women to write, and to address the imbalance in female-driven, female-centered, and female-authored scripts on stage and in film and television. We are excited to share excerpts from our work with you and to celebrate our success to date.
Join us on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at the Stanley Milner Library (Downtown Edmonton) in the Muttart Theatre (downstairs). Doors open at 6 PM.
We are grateful for the support of the Edmonton Arts Council.
TICKETS ARE FREE, but seats are limited. To reserve your seat, please email:
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PROGRAM
6 PM: Doors Open
6:30- 7:15 PM: Welcome and Excerpts from 4 scripts
7:15- 7:30 PM: Intermission (FREE snacks and drinks)
7:30- 8: 20 PM: Excerpts from 4 scripts and Closing Remarks
8:20 -9:00 PM: Mingle
ABOUT THE WRITERS:
Michelle Todd-
Heather D. Swain-
Sandy Paddick-
Sue Huff- Sue has written a short film, a television series, a play, and a book. She divides her work time between supporting parents with kids who have eating disorders, helping kids with emotional/behavioural challenges, providing workshops for teachers, and acting. For fun, she scuba dives, and starts up projects like this one!
Linda Grass-
Linda Wood Edwards-Linda Wood Edwards’ plays have been to Australia, Washington DC, Yukon, Victoria, Saskatchewan, and across Alberta. Linda’s plays have had many accolades, two Sterling nominations, two tours, and one professional production. Still, the writing never gets easier.
Deanna Clee-
Ellen Chorley-Ellen Chorley (she/her) is an Edmonton-based playwright, producer, director and arts educator. She is the current Artistic & Festival Director of Nextfest (Edmonton’s annual emerging arts festival), the Academy Director of the Theatre Network Summer Academy, an acting and playwrighting teacher for Foote Theatre School at the Citadel, the Student’s Club Facilitator for the Citadel Theatre. As a playwright, Ellen has had plays produced all over Canada and recently her play Everybody Loves Robbie won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at Alberta Literary Awards. Check Ellen out online at www.ellenchorley.com
Michelle Todd-
Heather D. Swain-
Sandy Paddick-
Sue Huff- Sue has written a short film, a television series, a play, and a book. She divides her work time between supporting parents with kids who have eating disorders, helping kids with emotional/behavioural challenges, providing workshops for teachers, and acting. For fun, she scuba dives, and starts up projects like this one!
Linda Grass-
Linda Wood Edwards-Linda Wood Edwards’ plays have been to Australia, Washington DC, Yukon, Victoria, Saskatchewan, and across Alberta. Linda’s plays have had many accolades, two Sterling nominations, two tours, and one professional production. Still, the writing never gets easier.
Deanna Clee-
Ellen Chorley-Ellen Chorley (she/her) is an Edmonton-based playwright, producer, director and arts educator. She is the current Artistic & Festival Director of Nextfest (Edmonton’s annual emerging arts festival), the Academy Director of the Theatre Network Summer Academy, an acting and playwrighting teacher for Foote Theatre School at the Citadel, the Student’s Club Facilitator for the Citadel Theatre. As a playwright, Ellen has had plays produced all over Canada and recently her play Everybody Loves Robbie won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at Alberta Literary Awards. Check Ellen out online at www.ellenchorley.com
ABOUT THE SCRIPTS
ALL OUR FRIENDS ARE SAD by Ellen Chorley
For over the past decade, Ellen Chorley has been writing a catch-all play called "All Our Friends Are Sad." Which is funny but also sad. This monologue is the play's party piece that she occasionally brings out, dusts off and shares.
MIDNIGHT CRY by Sue Huff
Sue started with a blank page on the first day of the Writers' Circle and wrote this film script entirely due to the support and deadlines of the Circle. It weaves two narratives together, both of which are based on true events: a night in 1956 when UFO cult waited for their spaceship to arrive to save them from a world-ending flood, and the day Sue's Mom died by MAiD in 2021. Themes include: mother-daughter love, impossible waiting, clinging to hope, and cognitive dissonance.
Eggs Over Awkward by Linda Wood Edwards
Linda's play is about families who wouldn’t choose to get together, but because their mother is still alive, they have to. It is also about the restaurant workers who have to serve brunch to such families every Mother’s Day. Scene 1 is the family getting organized, Scene 2 is the restaurant getting organized.
ALL OUR FRIENDS ARE SAD by Ellen Chorley
For over the past decade, Ellen Chorley has been writing a catch-all play called "All Our Friends Are Sad." Which is funny but also sad. This monologue is the play's party piece that she occasionally brings out, dusts off and shares.
MIDNIGHT CRY by Sue Huff
Sue started with a blank page on the first day of the Writers' Circle and wrote this film script entirely due to the support and deadlines of the Circle. It weaves two narratives together, both of which are based on true events: a night in 1956 when UFO cult waited for their spaceship to arrive to save them from a world-ending flood, and the day Sue's Mom died by MAiD in 2021. Themes include: mother-daughter love, impossible waiting, clinging to hope, and cognitive dissonance.
Eggs Over Awkward by Linda Wood Edwards
Linda's play is about families who wouldn’t choose to get together, but because their mother is still alive, they have to. It is also about the restaurant workers who have to serve brunch to such families every Mother’s Day. Scene 1 is the family getting organized, Scene 2 is the restaurant getting organized.
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