Caroline Russell-King

Caroline Russell-King

Caroline is an award-winning playwright who has written 30 plays which have had 60 productions across Canada and the USA. She is a member and past vice president of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. She is published in five anthologies and her latest trilogy of plays Palliser Suite was published by Frontenac House Press. Caroline has adjudicated plays nationally for contests and publishing houses. She also served on the board of the Alberta Playwrights’ Network and currently represents Western Canadian as ambassador for the Dramatist Guild of America. She co-wrote Strategies - The Business of being a Playwright in Canada (with Rose Scollard) published by the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Working as a professional dramaturg. She is the CEO and founder of Dramaturgy on Demand working weekly with playwrights in Canada and the USA. Caroline is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She has worked in new play development and as a freelance dramaturg and literary manager for 30 years. She is currently working with her editor on her second non-fiction book Do it Yourself Dramaturgy, (written during the pandemic when all the theatres were closed!).

Caroline teaches playwriting and leads The Artist Way groups at the Alexander Writers Centre. For the last three years she has taught creative writing to men who are recovering from addiction and have been formally incarcerated or have pending charges and are challenged with homelessness or mental heath issues.

As a theatre critic, Caroline has been a guest critic at the Calgary Sun. She is a freelance theatre reviewer for The Scene, a monthly arts publication in Calgary and THE YYSCENE, an on-line arts magazine. She pioneered the Postcard Review and Postcard Profiles as well as writing traditional interviews and articles. She has served on juries for the Betty Mitchel Theatre Awards and in the last two years The Calgary Theatre Critics Awards. In 2021 Caroline will start reviewing published plays from Playwrights Canada Press.

For fun she formed a play club, (much like a book club) and as a group they have been brunching and reading plays for the last 13 years!