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Conni Massing

 

 

Conni Massing is a professional writer, instructor and story consultant based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Bio

Conni is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright who also works steadily as a story consultant and writing instructor. She has been a series story editor and/or written episodes for The Beat, North of 60, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, Taking It Off, Family Restaurant and Mentors. Film projects include Invisible, co-written with and directed by Neil Grahn, and Voila! co-produced with director Geraldine Carr. Recent stage credits include her hit comedy Oh! Christmas Tree (Roxy Performance Series at Theatre Network), Matara (Workshop West Playwrights Theatre), Pants on Fire, The Mommy Monologues (Skirtsafire Festival), and The Invention of Romance (Workshop West Playwrights Theatre) as well as her widely-produced stage adaptations of W.O Mitchell’s Jake and the Kid and Bruce Allen Powe’s The Aberhart Summer. Conni has several publications to her credit, including six of her plays and a comic memoir, Roadtripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals (Brindle and Glass Publishing). She’s also written and published a number of essays and some short fiction. 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. Conni is a proud member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Writers Guild of Canada; she is also delighted to serve as the vice-president of YouthWrite Canada and a director on the board of the Broad View International Film Festival.

What's New


My new play Dead Letter is scheduled to premiere at Edmonton’s Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, running May 17 – June 2, 2024. Tickets are available at Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre.

The published version of my play Matara has just been released by NeWest Press.

I am honoured to be participating in the 2024 edition of The Shoe Project, mentoring a group of immigrant and refugee women from around the world who are writing essays about their arrival and adaptation to Canada, using a pair of shoes as the focus of their story. The performance of these stories, produced by SkirtsAfire Festival, will take place on March 2-3, 2024 in Edmonton, Alberta. For more information about the venue and tickets, visit SkirtsAfire.

Stage Plays

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