The Playwright

Colleen Osborn is currently working on her MFA in Opt-Res Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. She is also a writing mentor at UBC’s Booming Ground while living in Toronto. Produced plays to date: 2015 One Festival in London, UK (How It Crumbles); 2014 Toronto Wrecking Ball (Take It, Easy); 2013 Ottawa Fringe Festival and the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival (Botched); New Ideas Festival (Here to Stay, Seen This One Before); FOOT Festival (Sweetness Follows); and co-authored Guantanamo: Hotels & Resorts with Pandemic Theatre in 2009. Colleen has been published in City Voices: A Book of Monologues by Toronto Artists.

 

The Synopsis
Set in a dystopian future, people don’t really die or at least people don’t have time to grieve them. But when a secret is revealed, both the living and dead are put in danger.

 

The Idea 
When I was a messed up 16 year old, my dying mother told me ‘not to settle’ in life and how important it was to get an education. These were some of her final words to me.  Six years later, after completing my undergrad, I was working crap jobs (a diner and Molly Maid). Like many people finishing school, I was completely unsure what I was doing with my life, so on a whim I drove two hours to her grave back in my hometown and just sat there asking ‘Now what?’ I thought wouldn’t be great if she could somehow talk back.