Joan MacLeod’s plays include Jewel, Toronto, Mississippi, Amigo’s Blue Guitar, The Hope Slide, Little Sister, 2000, The Shape of a Girl, Homechild, Another Home Invasion, and The Valley. She also wrote a libretto for a chamber opera – an adaptation of the classic children’s novel The Secret Garden. Her work has been translated into eight languages. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Chalmers Canadian Play Awards, the Governor General’s Award, and in 2011 she received the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre. For seven years she was a playwright-in-residence at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. MacLeod also writes poetry, prose, and for television. Since 2004 she has worked at the University of Victoria as a professor in the Department of Writing. In 2016, she became a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Gracie was commissioned by the Belfry and premiered in Victoria in Winter 2017 – a co-production with Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary.
"Joan MacLeod’s excellently researched and compelling written 2017
play, Gracie ."
– theatretimes.com
"The remarkable thing about MacLeod’s play is the restraint she
uses to tell five years of Gracie’s life ... Gracie is an
adolescent on the verge of womanhood and that means she’s ready to
become someone’s wife, and what’s compelling both in MacLeod’s
script and Beaudoin’s performance is how Gracie deals with the
impending inevitable."
—Louis B. Hobson, Calgary Herald
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