Lois Brown (artist)

Lois Brown is a multidisciplinary artist and a seventh generation Newfoundlander. She was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and educated in Drama at The University of Alberta. Most of her work has been created in St. John’s. She was past AD of RCA Theatre Company, AD and Curator of Neighbourhood Dance Works, and Artist and Dramaturg-in-Residence at Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal. She performed in Artistic Fraud's The Pope and Princess Di.

Writing and directing

She has written and directed several short films including Confessions of an Emotional Adventuress (1989, self-produced) Sex the Way You Always Wanted It (2000, producer Rhonda Buckley) as well as her documentary The Ship is the Place (2002, produced by the NL Gallery.) She also directed the short musical film, Sweet Pickle (2008, produced by Baptiste Neis). In 2000, her first feature, The Bingo Robbers, a comedy co-written with Barry Newhook was released. Produced by Dana Warren, it won Best Original Screenplay, Best Music Composition and Best Actor at The Atlantic Film Festival. It also won Best Feature at the Toronto DV Festival beating out Trailer Park Boys. The Bingo Robbers was broadcast by TMN and CBC. Lois wrote the screenplay for Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas starring her friend Liane Balaban, directed by Justin Simms and produced by Anna Petras, also broadcast by CBC. Lois wrote and directed two seasons of her comedy webseries, Travel Anywhere. Other screenplays include City of Arseholes, The Dolphin Family co-written with Justin Simms (The Linda Joy Award), and The Dumpster Baby.

Awards

She was shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize in Directing (2004) and awarded The Newfoundland and Labrador Artist Achievement Award (2004.) She received the Victor Martyn Lynch Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts for a outstanding mid-career Canadian Theatre Artist (2005). Lois was named a YWCA Woman of Distinction in 2015 in St. John's, NL.

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