People

Please note Writers may contact the following editors independent of Praxis. These editors are not necessarily listed for volunteer purposes - please discuss fees and time commitments with each editor.

Michele Adams

Preferences:
Features or shorts; special interest in period pieces, adaptations, and stories with child protagonists.

Contact method:
madams@shaw.ca

Representative:
Dacia Moss at Lucas Talent

Bio:
Michele's approach to story is informed by Raymond Chandler's belief that "a good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled." A current story editing project is the exuberant romantic comedy Bhangra Cab (Penguin Films/Dogwood Productions) for writer Barrie Abbott and producer Pat O'Brien; she's also a script analyst for Praxis, serves in the Alibi Unplugged juries, and is on the Harold Greenberg and Praxis lists of story editors.

Michele has completed three feature scripts: Lady S (adapted from Jane Austen's first novel Lady Susan), Sex Lives of the Saints, and The Kindest Thing, and is now working on a fourth. Lady S and Sex Lives both won fellowships in the Praxis Screenplay Competition (1998,1999) and are currently under option and in development. Each has Harold Greenberg funding, and Sex Lives has also received support from Movie Central. One of her shorts won the first Praxis Out-of-the-Hat contest; another, Beachbound, was a winner in the latest CBC/BC Film 'Signature Shorts' (2003) -- directed by Gemini award winner Jessica Bradford, to be broadcast early in 2004.

Background includes an M.A. in English Literature and professional development in story editing (e.g., Clare Downs 'Seeing Eye to Eye' Workshop in 2000, and the Praxis Story Editor program in 2002, working with mentor Sharon Riis) and screenwriting. Michele has received scholarships to the Banff Centre ( in radio drama, fiction, poetry) and to Booming Ground (UBC Creative Writing, short fiction); her writing has been published (The Fiddlehead, Canadian Fiction), dramatized (CBC Radio), and performed (Harrison Festival of the Arts, etc.); she has also worked as a writer/broadcaster for CBC Radio. Her current fiction project is a novel, Trojan Husbands.

In addition to writing, Michele has an ongoing commitment to teaching and editing; she has taught Literature, Communications, Creative Writing and Screenwriting at UBC, VCC, OLA, and VFS, and also works as a freelance writer/editor.

Ric Beairsto

Preferences:
Features and shorts

Contact method:
laughingmountain@shaw.ca or (604) 669-6887

Bio:
Ric Beairsto is an award-winning writer/director/producer who was a founding partner in 1980 with The Hy Perspectives Media Group Inc. where he produced a string of successful television documentaries, including Walking in Pain, set within a Native drug and alcohol treatment centre, and A Life of Independence, about severely handicapped men leaving an institution. More recently, Ric produced Stand-Up Samurais, an hour-long documentary about stand-up comics touring the small towns of western Canada, and acted as Executive Producer on My Mother, My Hero, a 13-part series about the relationships between mothers who survived the holocaust and their children. Mr. Beairsto has also written and directed extensively in the area of TV drama and docu-drama, including Close to Home, a feature-length docu-drama broadcast by the CBC, and Eye Level, a dramatic mini-series broadcast by a consortium of six different Canadian broadcasters, and the teen series Madison. Ric is currently at work on numerous feature film and television projects, including Reborn and Last Laugh, both theatrical features, Superkids, a documentary for CBC Newsworld's Rough Cuts series, and Dark Pines, a docu-drama for CHUM TV. Ric has acted as a script consultant/story editor on more than 30 feature-length screenplays, and, as a part-time Instructor in screenwriting at the Vancouver Film School, he has actively edited more than 1000 short screenplays. He has also worked extensively as the writer of the narration for many documentaries, including all of those listed above. Mr. Beairsto is the author of The Tyranny of Story: Audience Expectations and the Short Screenplay, VFS Press 1998, a book about story form in general, and short screenplay form in particular, which is now a regular textbook in over a dozen North American film schools, including UCLA.

Amnon Buchbinder

Preferences:
Features, any genre

Contact method:
www.amnon.ca

Bio:
Amnon Buchbinder has been involved with filmmaking since Grade 6. He has directed two feature films: the Genie-winning The Fishing Trip (1998), written by one of his students, and Whole New Thing (2005), which he co-wrote with Daniel MacIvor. Previously he wrote, produced and directed a wide variety of short films, ranging from experimental to narrative to documentary and performing arts works.   He has written numerous development-funded feature screenplays. Amnon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film at York University, where he has been teaching since 1995. He is the author of the book THE WAY OF THE SCREENWRITER, published in 2005 by House of Anansi Press. (Visit www.wayofthescreenwriter.com for more info about the book.) He has worked as a story editor with writers, directors and producers, as well as leading professional screenwriting workshops, across Canada. Amnon obtained his BFA and MFA in film from California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Dr. Don Levy and Alexander Mackendrick. He was a director resident at the Canadian Film Centre and was a fellow of the very first Praxis workshop in 1986. He is the father of two teenaged sons and lives with his family in Toronto. For more info about Amnon’s work visit www.amnon.ca.

Dianna Bodnar

Preferences:
Features, MOWs, Docs; any genre

Contact method:
dsbodnar@telus.net or (604) 633-1254.

Bio:
Dianna has worked for the last 10 years as a writer, story editor and producer for television and print media, and more recently, for feature film. She is a script analyst on continuing contract for various government funding bodies, financiers, broadcasters and independent producers, including Telefilm, BC Film and Movie Central. Dianna was selected for the Praxis Story-Editor Apprenticeship program in 2002, and has worked full-time as a freelance writer and story-editor since then. Recent story-editing projects include the romantic comedy Love and Other Dilemmas for writer Deb Peraya and producer Clare Hodge, which subsequently won the 2003 NSI Features First competition.

Other story editing projects include romantic comedy, coming-of-age comedy, drama, thriller, documentary, and short-form work. Dianna is also completing her feature supernatural coming-of-age drama Fruit of a Hot Summer. Other recent projects include writing Weird Sex and Snowshoes (based on the book by film critic Katherine Monk, Omni Film Productions (TMN, Movie Pix) and co-writing/story-editing the 13-part series Spring (2003, Paperny Films, HGTV Canada/USA). Dianna also wrote and produced the documentaries Comedic Genius: The Work of Bernard Slade (2002, Bravo) and Love and Duty: Canadian Red Cross Women In WWII (2001, History) for Infinity Films.

Previous work has taken Dianna to London to develop original documentary programs and series for Jeremy Isaacs Productions (producers of CNN/BBC's Cold War and Millennium), British digital network Artsworld, and Zebra Film Productions on a wide range of arts and social issues. Dianna has an MA in English from the University of British Columbia, where she taught literature and writing courses as a sessional lecturer for six years. She has also taught ongoing courses in writing and editing for Simon Fraser University, Douglas College, and Camosun College. She was appointed Adjunct Professor in the Master of Publishing Program, Communications Department, at Simon Fraser University in BC in 1995.

Maureen Dorey

Preferences:
Feature and long-form drama.

Contact method:
mlukie5061@rogers.com

Bio:
Maureen Dorey has worked in the Canadian film and television industry for twenty years, first at Primedia Productions, then as a free-lance analyst and story editor since 1992. Her most recent production credits straddle television and film, as story editor for Random Passage , an eight-hour mini-series directed by John N. Smith, produced by Passage Films and Cite-Amerique for broadcast on CBC and RTE (Eire), as well as Mile Zero, a feature film produced by Anagram Films and Horsie's Retreat, a feature film now in production with the CFC's Feature Film Programme.

Other credits include The Mysteries of Ice Fishing by writer-director Paul Fox for Sienna Films, Extraordinary Visitor (Film East), The War Between Us (MOW, Troika Productions/Atlantis); Lyddie (MOW, Film Works/Mind's Eye, for CBC and BBC), Violet (written and directed by Rosemary House, produced by Mary Sexton) and On My Mind, 6 x 30 min. childrenÕs dramas. Maureen Dorey has acted as consultant to the National Screen Institute, Praxis Film Works and B.C. Film, and has been Story Editor in Residence to the Canadian Film Centre's Alliance Atlantis Residency - Writers' Lab for the past three years, as well as to the CFC's Feature Film project.

Neil Every

Preferences: Horror/Sci-Fi, Drama, Romantic-Comedy (Features and Shorts)

Contact: xpat@telus.net

Bio:
A British ex-patriot, Neil has been working in the film industry in Vancouver for almost a decade.  As a Story Editor he brings a wide range of skills to the table having directed 12 short films, written numerous feature scripts and worked as a Story Editor and Instructor at Vancouver Film School for 2+ years (workshopping close to 400 short scripts!).  As a Director his short films include The Fare (NS.I. Drama Prize winner, 1998), Rapunzel’s Fairytale (Official Selection N.S.I. FilmExchange, 2003) and Say Yes (Winner DGC Kickstart Award, 2004 and Official Selection of the Montreal World Film Festival, 2005).  His feature scripts include the PRAXIS Fellowship winning The Ormering Tide (Spring and Summer 2002) and The Condemned (starring Luis Guzman and Leanne Balaban).  Neil won a PRAXIS Story Editor Internship in 2003 and has worked with such local talents as Guy Bennett, Kellie Benz, Chris Donaldson, Kaare Andrews, Matthew Harrison and Lynne Kamm. Neil is a 4 time Guest Panellist of the Final Draught script reading series as well as “the prize” in the Win a Story Editor Contest at the Cold Reading Series (2004 and 2005 Seasons).  Neil has also sat on the jury for both PRAXIS and the ReelFast 48hr Film Festival.  He has participated in numerous seminars including the famed Robert McKee “Story” seminar.  Neil is noted for his strengths in character and theme and for his (sometimes brutal but always constructive!) honest criticism.

Hugh Graham

Preferences:
Period dramas; political thrillers, drama; comedy Sci-Fi if it's original.

Contact method:
hgraham@gosympatico.ca

Bio:
After doing a year at the university of Lyon in France, Hugh Graham did his BA in English and History at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, graduating in 1974. During the remainder of the 70s He worked at odd jobs in Canada and in Europe which included farm work, construction, quality control in a Dutch brewery and carving meat. In 1978 he began to write comedy sketches for Don Harron at CBC Morningside in Toronto and wrote radio comedy at the CBC for the next ten years. Highlights include Here Come the Seventies which he wrote with producer David Cole and his comedy special Paris from Wilde to Morrison which won a Peabody Radio award.

In 1983 Hugh began writing screenplays. In 1984, he went to Costa Rica where he did some reporting on the relations between the CIA and a guerilla group during the war in Nicaragua. From that experience emerged his book about that corner of the war, Ploughing the Seas. In 1985, he lived in Paris and in1987 he wrote a crime thriller A Sudden Darkness based on a true story and which has been optioned numerous times and once more approaches pre-production. 1988 saw the production of his screenplay Palais Royale. Throughout the nineties he worked on numerous screen projects including Point of No Return, the story of the two Canadians entangled in a Brazilian kidnapping and One Dead Indian, the story of Dudley George. He was also story editor on Vincent Natali's sci-fi thriller, Cube. In television he's written six well-received programs for Patrick Watson's Witness to Yesterday and he has just completed translating one hundred of his Television Heritage Minutes to radio.

Sondra Kelly

Preferences:
features, limited series, MOW's and TV series

Contact method:
sjksondra@aol.com or (416) 516 8215.

Bio:
Sondra Kelly has extensive experience in both TV and movies. A selected list iof projects includes (Canada) Paula's Power Play, Infinitely Yours, Stand Up Guys, S'Agapo, As For Me and My House, Street Legal, Danger Bay, Edison Twins, My Secret Identity (Ireland), Fatso's, Manlove, The Forty Acres. Three time particpant as story at Canadian Film Centre's TV Drama Workshop. Senior Analyst HAROLD GREENBERG FUND.

Sylvia Leung

Preferences:
Features or series television, any genre

Contact method:
sjleung@telus.net or (604) 612-7790

Bio:
Sylvia Leung is currently a story editor/writer on the Canadian television series Da Vinci's Inquest. She was a story editor/writer on the dramatic series Risk, a half-hour episodic (X 26) co-produced by Minds Eye Pictures and Risk TV (UK) and worked in the story department of Mentors, a children's dramatic series produced by Minds Eye Pictures and Anaid Productions. Sylvia story edited features for Minds Eye Pictures and analysed over 500 feature-length scripts for CORUS/Movie Central, Minds Eye Pictures, Praxis Centre for Screenwriters and Telefilm Canada. She has also written, produced and directed over 100 video programs for corporate clients and educational television.

Patricia Ludwick

Bio:
Patricia Ludwick has worked in script development for over twenty years, working one-on-one with writers through such organizations as the New Play Centre and Praxis Centre for Screenwriters, as well as doing script analysis for Telefilm Canada, Alberta Motion Pictures Development Corporation, B.C. Film, and independent producers. She has taught scriptwriting for the Creative Writing Department at UBC and Malaspina University-College, and has served on juries in competitions which support writers, such as the Canada Council, Praxis, Alberta Theatre Projects, the New Play Centre and Women in VIEW.

Her current work is primarily with writers developing their first feature, most recently with Nathaniel Geary's film, On The Corner, which won City TV's Best Western Feature in the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival.

Her current work is primarily with writers developing their first feature, most recently with Nathaniel Geary's film, On The Corner, which won City TV's Best Western Feature in the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival.

Jason Margolis

Preferences:
Comedy

Contact Method:
Tel: 604 839-0811
jason@jumpfilm.com

Bio:
Jason Margolis works as a freelance writer, story editor, director, and motion picture editor.  His writing credits include the Global Television documentary Inside Boystown, the Directors Guild Of Canada KickStart short film After Shock, and three award winning shorts for Vancouver's Reel Fast 48 Hour Film Festival. He won a 2005/2006 Praxis Centre for Screenwriters fellowship for the screenplay The Great One (formerly known as 99), his second collaboration with novelist Todd Babiak.  Their previous collaboration, an adaption of Babiak's novel Choke Hold, received development support from BC Film, Citytv, and Telefilm.  Jason was a 2005 Praxis Story Editor Intern and his script Beside Herself was developed through a fellowship from Praxis and IATSE 891.  As a screenwriting instructor at Vancouver Film School, Jason has story edited over 450 scripts, resulting in over 100 completed films.  Jason has also taught at the Art Institute of Vancouver, Cineworks Independent Filmmakers' Society, and the National Screen Institute. He has story edited and read scripts for Vancouver companies Screen Siren Pictures, Monkey Ink Media and Praxis.  His debut feature Lucky Stars premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2004 and has gone on to screen at festivals across North America. He is currently directing several music videos and documentaries, including the historical documentary Ayaa for producer Marilyn Thomas.  Jason's experience as a motion picture editor on several television series - including shows for Jim Henson Productions, Omni Film Productions and Citytv - offers him a rather unique experience as a story editor.  His own writing encompasses a variety of genres, but he has a preference for commercial genres such as comedy and science fiction.

Katharine Montagu

Katharine Montagu
Preference:
 Features.

Contact:
 (604) 732-4530
wse@telus.net

Bio:
Katharine Montagu has worked as a story editor since 1999. She graduated from UBC with a first class Creative Writing BFA in 1996, became a Praxis story editor-in-training in 1999 (mentored by John Frizzell) and a Praxis Fellow with her screenplay The Emperor of China in 2001. BC Film funded the development of two of Katharine's screenplays The Emperor of China and The Nielsons. Another, a romantic comedy called Mismatch was a quarter finalist at Austin. In 2003, Kat wrote and produced an award-winning short film Therapy starring Venus Terzo. Katharine's short film Jam Space, starring Fred Ewanuick, screened at the Whistler Film Festival. In 2004, she wrote an episode for the Brightlight Pictures series Alienated.

 Kat has been a screenwriting instructor at Vancouver Film School since 2001. She has taught story editing there since 2003. She has also taught short film pre-production at the Art Institute in Burnaby and indie film production at UBC. Active in the Vancouver filmmaking community, Kat has been Vice-President of WIFVV, a Cineworks board member and a frequent moderator at the Alibi Unplugged Screenplay Reading Series. Kat has story edited the work of Ken Hegan, Philip Spink and Nicholas Racz. Her recent story editing jobs include the fantasy web series The Seeker by Nastasha Baron, the Writer's First drama A Good Home by Vancouver writer Joanne Wannan and the Features First sci fi drama Level 16 by Winnipeg writer-director Daniska Esterhazy.

 Kat has been a script analyst for BC Film, Praxis and various producers. Her particular strengths are structure and character development.

Roslyn Muir

Preferences:
Feature film, any genre, but has also worked with documentary and shorts.

Contact method:
(604) 812-1960 rozm@shaw.ca

Bio:
Roslyn Muir is a screenwriter, director/producer, script editor, and past president of Women in Film and Video Vancouver.
She works with BC Film and Movie Central as a Script Analyst. She reads scripts for local production companies such as Brightlight Pictures, and story edits many independent features.
Roslyn has a degree from SFU in Theatre and English. She currently works as Business and Development Manager at Rave Film with Sharon McGowan and Peggy Thompson. She is currently producing a documentary, Freediver: Into the Abyss. She is a recipient of the BC Film Screenwriter Fellowship, 2001-2002, for her screenplay, The Karaoke Queen. Her screenplay, Icarus Descending, and a feature documentary, are in development with producer Kerri Beattie of Blue Mountain Media. Together, they also produced F-Stop, a short film written and directed by Roslyn. Roslyn also co-produced a short film, Nod, which was selected to screen at the NSI's Film Exchange in Winnipeg, 2002.

Andrew Pope

Preferences:
Features or MOW's; any genre

Contact method:
(604) 633-1254) or japope@telus.net

Bio:
Andrew has been a story analyst for funding agencies, producers, and broadcasters since 1992. His clients include Telefilm, B.C. Film, Movie Central and CBC. Andrew was sponsored for the Telefilm/Praxis story editor internship in 2001. He worked freelance for the next year, and was then appointed Director of Development with Anagram Pictures in 2002. While with Anagram, Andrew oversaw development of their slate of features and MOWs, wrote funding application documents, and researched potential new projects. Andrew is currently re-writing his own screenplay (see below) while story editing on a freelance basis for Anagram and other producers, writers, and broadcasters. Most recent genres edited include comedy/horror, redemption/crime, courtroom drama (MOW), dark comedy multi-plot, and romantic comedy.

As a screenwriter, Andrew's romantic dramedy, The Good Fight, earned him a Praxis Centre For Screenwriters Fellowship after winning the annual contest in 1999. The rewrite was selected for a professional summer workshop in 2000. Andrew was recently selected for a B.C. Film Screenwriting Internship, and is continuing to develop The Good Fight, assisted by mentor John Frizzell and advised by Scott Frank (Get Shorty, Minority Report).

Annie Reid

Preferences:
Features, MOW, any genre

Contact method:
annierrr@shaw.ca or 604-696-6286

Bio:
Annie Reid is a Vancouver-based writer and story editor. Recent story editing projects include Anagram Picture’s Fido, as well as several other short and long form scripts currently in development. Annie has worked as a reader for Praxis as well as local independent production companies, and is currently writing an MOW for an independent Canadian film producer. In the United States, she worked as the personal assistant to screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. (Jarhead, Cast Away, Apollo 13, Polar Express).  She received the prestigious Nicholl fellowship in 2003, and has also been a Praxis Screenwriting Fellow (2005) and Praxis Story Editor Intern (2004).  She is also a published short story writer, and has taught writing at the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, the University of Texas, and the Texas League of Writers.

Sharon Riis

Preferences:
Features, TV, most genres.

Contact method:
Agent Shain Jaffe (416) 925-2051

Bio:
Award-winning screenwriter Sharon Riis is currently writing the script for a new television movie about the early years of country superstar, Shania Twain. The Twain biopic, co-produced by CBC and Barna-Alper Productions, should air sometime soon after Fall 2004. Not quite the dry spell Riis expected when the film Savage Messiah won her a Genie for best adapted screenplay last year. "According to my agent it means you'll get no work," she said at the time, adding that she once won a Gemini award and was out of work for some time. "It's Canada. It is an odd bloody country."

Sharon has story edited over 30 Praxis Fellowship-winning screenplays and is known for her honesty and her dry wit.

Donaleen Saul

Preferences:
Features, any genre

Contact method:
dsaul@shaw.ca

Bio:
A Gemini-nominated screenwriter, Donaleen Saul is a script analyst for Telefilm Canada, BC Film, and Movie Central. She has served as a story editor for CBC, Disney, and a number of independent producers throughout Canada and the U.S. She teaches at the Vancouver Film School and at Langara Community College. website: thewritestep.com

Sara Snow

Preferences:
Features; no horror or science fiction

Contact method:
snowsa@shaw.ca

Bio:
Sara Snow is a Vancouver based writer and story editor for film, television, and theatre. She recently completed work as a senior story editor and writer for the new Verite Films youth series (APTN/TVO), renegade.com. Sara has also worked for two seasons as a story editor and writer for the CBC youth series, Edgemont. She is currently writing a second draft of her screenplay adaptation of the Robert Girardi novella, The Defenestration of Aba Sid for Persistence Pictures and is also working on a family movie, Nora's Ghosts, for which she received a Telefilm Screenwriter Assistance Grant.

Sara has also written for YTV's/Disney's The Incredible Story Studio, Teletoon's What About Mimi?, WTN's You, Me and the Kids, and CBC's Scoop and Doozie.

Sara works as a freelance story editor and reader for Telefilm Canada and for the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters. She received a Master's Degree in Literature from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, where she studied with Frank Galati. She has taught writing, literature, and performance courses at various universities in Canada and the U.S. (most recently at the University of British Columbia.)

Before making the transition to film and television, Sara worked as an actor, director, and writer for the theatre. Her work has been produced at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the National Arts Centre Atelier, the Great Canadian Theatre Company, Le Groupe Derives Urbaines, and the Arts Court Theatre.

Madeline Thompson

Preferences:
Long-form television and feature films; no genre preference

Contact method:
madeline.thompson@sympatico.ca or 416-530-0062

Bio:
Madeline Thompson has been a writer/story editor in the Canadian film and television business for over twenty-five years. She has aided in the development of numerous TV programs and feature films for many of Canada's established producers. She is also story editor for DME Enterprises (Donald Martin) in Los Angeles having worked on some fifteen of Donald's projects put in to development with major television networks and independent producers. These include A Matter of Family currently in production at CBS, and a feature film in development at Columbia Pictures.

Madeline is also a script consultant for many of the country's leading broadcasters and development organizations, advising on acquisition, equity investment and development potential.
Most recently, she is co-writer of Behind The Mirror, currently optioned to producer Bonnie Palef, and The Stork Derby (uncredited) which aired in 2002.

Elke Town

Preferences:
Features, MOWs and shorts

Contact method:
elke@story-works.ca or 416 535 3322
http://story-works.ca

Bio:
Elke Town is a writer, producer and story-editor. She has story edited numerous long and short-form scripts as well as the first of a series of mystery novels. She has worked contractually for Telefilm Canada, the Canadian Film Centre, the Ontario Media Development Corporation and Astral Media's Harold Greenberg FUND. She has developed feature film projects and produced two short films, Emer Banished to the Waves of the Sea and Sway and a one-hour children's television drama Jenny and the Queen of Light. Most recently she produced and co-wrote a documentary My Tango with Porn for CBC Newsworld Rough Cuts.

Karen X. Tulchinsky

Preferences:
Features, MOWs, Docs, adaptations; any genre

Contact method:
kxt@telus.net

Representation:
Linda Saint, The Saint Agency
Linda@thesaintagency.com
416-944-8200

Bio:
A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, Tulchinsky has written for episodic television:  Robson Arms, produced by Omni Films for CTV, Floored By Love, produced by Holiday Pictures for Chum/CItytv.  She is the story editor for Kink Season IV and V, a documentary television series, produced by Paperny Films for Showcase TV. She was a Praxis Story Editor Intern in 2003 and received a B.C. Film Screenwriter’s Fellowship in 2003, to develop a romantic comedy with veteran screenwriter Peggy Thompson (Better Than Chocolate).

She wrote a feature length romantic comedy, Lucky Luck, which was developed through the National Screen Institute’s Feature’s First Program and Straight in the Face, a short film, produced through the Canadian Film Centre’s Short Dramatic Film Program, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Her feature screenplay, Sticks and Stones, adapted from her acclaimed novel, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky is currently in development with Ocular Productions. B.C. Bookworld said about the novel:   “Tulchinsky does for Toronto what Mordecai Richler did for Montreal.”  Karen teaches creative writing at Langara College, has led writer’s workshops and has done script analysis for Praxis and on a freelance basis.