Erin Shields

Erin Shields is a Canadian stage actress and playwright.[1] She is best known for her play If We Were Birds, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2011 Governor General's Awards,[2] and was a nominee for the 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play.[3] The play premiered at the Summerworks Festival in 2008 before being mounted by Tarragon Theatre in 2010.[1]

Erin Shields
Occupationactress, playwright
NationalityCanadian
Period2000s-present
Notable worksIf We Were Birds, Paradise Lost

Her other plays include Barrel Crank,[4] Montparnasse (cowritten with Maev Beaty),[5] The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski,[6] The Epic of Gilgamesh (up to the part when Enkidu dies) and Soliciting Temptation,[7] and Beautiful Man.[8]

Her play Paradise Lost, a theatrical adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.[9]

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