Alison’s plays include The Thing Between Us (shortlisted for the Playwright Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt Award), The Catering Queen, And All For Love and Too Close to Home.   She co-wrote the play bittergirl, the book Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped (Penguin Canada, Plume US), and Bittergirl – the musical with Annabel Fitzsimmons and Mary Francis Moore.  The Catering Queen and bittergirl are published by Scirocco Drama.  Alison has worked across the country onstage and has been seen on Ghosts (CBS), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC) and as a regular on Amazon Prime’s The Lake. She is an alumna of the Banff Playwrights Lab and a MacDowell Fellow. www.alisonlawrence.ca

Thank you to David R. Mitsui, to Severn Thompson and Gil Garratt, to Kim Blackwell and Autumn Smith, and very special thanks to my first readers, Brenda Kamino and Veronika Hurnik, for their notes, advice and translation on the Japanese-Canadian and Czech threads of the play.