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One of two Wiebes featured in The Encyclopedia of Manitoba, Armin Wiebe is the author of four novels set in the fictional Mennonite community of Gutenthal: The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, Murder in Gutenthal, The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst, and Grandmother, Laughing.
His novel Tatsea, set in the Canadian subarctic of the 1760s, won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.
He has also published Armin's Shorts: Little Fictions, a selection of short stories written over more than thirty years.
Armin's stage play, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, was produced by Theatre Projects Manitoba in 2011, and received enthusiastic reviews and sold out houses. A second production was mounted by Station Arts Centre in Rosthern, Saskatchewan in the summer of 2016.
His one act play, Wine and Little Breads, placed first in the Rhubarb Magazine-Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre One Act Play contest and was produced by Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre in November 2014. An expanded version of Wine and Little Breads was presented as a staged-reading at the 2018 Carol Shields Festival of New Works and received an Honourable Mention in the 2019 Herman Voaden National Playwrighting Competition.
Wiebe's most recent play, The Recipe, premiered at Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre in November 2024 in a co-production between Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and Theatre Projects Manitoba.
Wiebe’s work is renowned for the musicality of its dialect and dialogue.
Armin’s readings have been enjoyed in many venues across Canada as well as CBC radio. He has shared stages with W.O. Mitchell, Carol Shields, David Bergen, Lorna Crozier, Miriam Toews, Sandra Birdsell, Di Brandt, Vicki Gabereau, Louise Penny, Rudy Wiebe and others.
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Hope McIntyre is an award winning playwright and director. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre and Film and also teaches through the Walls to Bridges program in correctional centres. Her training includes a BFA in performance from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA in directing from the University of Victoria. She was the founding Artistic Director of Sarasvàti Productions, a company dedicated to social change that she helmed for 22 years. During this tenure she developed multiple new theatrical works, produced FemFest (an annual festival), worked as a dramaturg for emerging playwrights, and developed community-based play creation methods.
Hope is former Chair of The Women’s Caucus and former President of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. She has received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award, the Bra D’Or, the Women Helping Women Award, the Mahatma Gandhi Social Change Award, and the University of Winnipeg Arts Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2023 she published the e-book The Business of Theatre: Pathways to a Career in Theatre.