Kelly Rebar (Writing)

Playwright, born 1956 in Lethbridge Alberta, and grew up in Calgary, where her first play, Chatters was produced in 1974 at Factory Theatre West. She graduated from York University in Film Studies in 1978, and returned to Alberta to write Checkin’ Out, commissioned by Northern Light Theatre, produced in 1981. It subsequently played across Western Canada. She is best known for Bordertown Café which was commissioned by Blyth Festival and premiered there in 1987. Set in a café on the Canadian side of the Alberta/Montana border, it features a hybrid American/Canadian family whose members are torn between their unrealized hopes and dreams and family loyalties. The teenage son finally opts to stay in Alberta with his struggling young single mother, to help his Canadian grandfather harvest the wheat, instead of joining his freewheeling truckdriving father in the US. It won the 1990 CAA for Drama, and was made into a feature...Read More