George F. Walker
George F. Walker is one of Canada's most prolific and widely produced playwrights. He has received nine Chalmers Awards, five Dora Awards, and three Governor General’s Awards. He is also the recipient of the Order of Canada. His plays have met with critical and popular success in hundreds of productions worldwide; they have been translated into German, French, Hebrew, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, Mandarin, and Japanese. In 1997, Suburban Motel - 6 plays located in the same motel room - premiered in Canada under Walker's direction at Factory Theatre in Toronto, and in New York at Rattlestick Productions. Since then individual plays from the series have had numerous productions throughout the USA and the UK and all six plays were presented at the Schaubühne in Berlin starting October 2004 and also received over twenty productions in the rest of Germany during the subsequent year. All six plays were in Munich at the Bavarian State Theatre starting in October 2005.