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Biography
Michelle Davis grew up "chasing tumble weeds and running through the wheat fields" of all three prairie provinces, before moving to British Columbia to pursue a B.A. in English and French, a BEd and finally an MEd.
A high school teacher-librarian by day, a writer by night (and sometimes...the wee hours of the morning) and a mom 24/7, Michelle enjoys the variety of all three worlds!
She lives in Port Coquitlam with her husband and two sons.
Book types: playwrights, editors, others
Guest speaker/presentation information
Please contact Michelle via email for information about her interactive school presentations and writing workshops.
Presentation geographic range: Vancouver, Coast, Lower Mainland, Gulf and Vancouver Islands
Presentation audience age groups: primary school, grades K-3, grades 4-6, grades 7-8, high school, college/university/adult
Published work
Mystery at Shady Acres (full length play, 1999)
Foibles and Folly (full length play, 2004)
Christmas...Unwrapped (one act play, 2006)
Shiver Me Timbers! (full length play, 2007)
Who Me? Yes You! (a full length play incorporating a series of sketches about Social Responsibility written for children's theatre, 2008)
A Winter's Gift (full length play co-authored with David Ward, 2009)
Anne of Green Gables (a full length adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's classic) (2009)
Awards & recognition
Michelle's plays for amateur theatre have had over 900 productions in schools, community theatres and churches across the United States, Canada and overseas (Germany, England, Taiwan and New Zealand).
Mystery at Shady Acres was a contest finalist for the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest.
A scene from Shiver Me Timbers! was presented before an audience of student teachers and Education Faculty at the University of B.C.'s Hebb Theatre for Authorfest 2006
Who Me? Yes You! was selected as a course text for a Drama in Education course at the University of BC (summer 2008)
