Description: Includes an essay by the author, My zoo story following the main text.
Brief description:
Conni is an Edmonton-based playwright and screenwriter, who has written nearly twenty stage plays as well as short films and television drama. She works steadily as a story consultant and dramaturg, and has taught screenwriting and playwriting for a variety of institutions. Conni's published work includes six of her plays and a comic memoir, Roadtripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals. Her writing has been recognized by AMPIA, the Academy of Cinema and Television, the Betty Mitchell Awards, the Writers Guild of Alberta and the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards.
Review Quotes:
"Massing weaves [this] tale with her customary finesse." LIANE FAULDER, The Edmonton Journal
"The thorny idea of 'home, ' what it means, what it can legitimately claim to possess, what it plants in the heart, is everywhere in Conni Massing's provocative, thoughtful, absorbing -- and genuinely strange -- new play Matara." LIZ NICHOLLS, 12thnight.ca
"Massing sure knows how to tell a story." COLIN MACLEAN, Gigcity.ca