Vern Thiessen is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

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Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, Thiessen studied at the University of Winnipeg

University of Winnipeg

The University of Winnipeg is a public university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that offers undergraduate faculties of art, business and economics, education, science and theology as well as graduate programs. The U of W's founding colleges were Manitoba College and Wesley College, which merged...

 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He later attended the University of Alberta

University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...

, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Thiessen currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

 and was formerly a drama instructor at the University of Alberta. He is a past president of the Writer's Guild of Alberta.

Theatrical works

• 1987: The Courier
• 1990: The Resurrection of John Frum
• 1996: Blowfish
• 2002: Apple
• 2003: Einstein's Gift
  Einstein's Gift
  Einstein's Gift is a play written by Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen in 2003. Through the recollections of Albert Einstein, the play focuses on the life and career of German chemist Dr. Fritz Haber, who helped improve living conditions with his work on nitrogen fixation...
  
  
• 2005: Shakespeare's Will
• 2006: Back to Berlin
• 2007: Vimy

External links

• Vern Thiessen official website, accessed 21 July 2006
• Canadian Mennonite, 12 January 2004, "Drama Winner", accessed 21 July 2006
• University of Alberta commercial featuring Vern Thiessen, accessed 21 July 2006