Bio Caroline Russell-King

Caroline is an award-winning playwright who has written 33 plays which have had 66 productions across Canada and the USA.

Her play, Selma Burke (with Maria Crooks), was a finalist for the Sharon Pollock Playwriting Competition, winner of The National Playwriting Competition, winner of The Betty Mitchel Theatre Award for Outstanding New Play and The Calgary Theatre Critics’ Award for Outstanding New Play Script.

She is proud to be the winner of the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, Writers’ Guild of Alberta for her play High and Splendid Braveries.

Caroline is a member and past vice president of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. She is also a former ambassador to Canada for Dramatist Guild of America.

Published in five anthologies and her trilogy of plays Palliser Suite was published by Frontenac House Press. She also co-wrote Strategies - The Business of being a Playwright in Canada (with Rose Scollard) published by the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

In 2026 her book Do It Yourself Dramaturgy was a finalist for the national Canreads book awards.