Florence Gibson MacDonald is a Canadian playwright."Relocated playwright enjoying Thornhill". Yorkregion.com, May 7, 2013. She is best known for her plays Belle, which was a finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2000"Weird Doras in a strange season: Prizes notable for omissions as much as for those that won". National Post, June 27, 2000. and a winner of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 2001,"Chalmers reinvents arts awards". The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2001. and Home Is My Road, which won the Carol Bolt Award in 2004.
Her other plays have included Missing, i think i can, How Do I Love Thee?, Augury and Love Handles, as well as radio plays for CBC Radio.
Formerly a medical doctor, Gibson wrote several short plays which were produced on the fringe festival circuit before her success with Belle, her first full-length play."Belle: the hit play that almost wasn't: The path to artistic success is often strewn with heartbreak and rejection. Just ask Florence Gibson". National Post, March 4, 2000. She then devoted herself to full-time writing.
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