Colleen Murphy won the 2014 Carol Bolt Award for her play Pig Girl and was shortlisted for the 2014 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Her play The December Man (L’homme de décembre) won the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Other plays include Beating Heart Cadaver (nominated for a Governor General’s Award), Armstrong’s War, The Goodnight Bird, and The Piper. She is also an award-winning filmmaker. Colleen is currently the Lee Playwright-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.