Camille Pavlenko

Camille is an early-career playwright and actor based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary, Alberta. Her previous work has won and been short-listed for awards from, among others, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, Theatre BC, Ottawa Little Theatre, the Alberta Playwriting Competition, and the Herman Voaden Prize. This season, she joins the Playwrights’ Unit at Alberta Theatre Projects, where she’ll be working on expanding her award-winning comedy, Go for Gold, Audrey Pham. Along with composer KP Smith, Camille was selected for the 2018-19 New Musical Program at Alberta Musical Theatre Company (Alberta Opera), which culminated with the world premiere of their original TYA musical, Baba Yaga. Camille was most recently seen onstage in Noises Off (Theatre Calgary), The Outsider (Stage West Theatre), Blackbird (Verb Theatre), and Timmy, Tommy, and the Haunted Hotel (Pape & Taper Productions). She is the recipient of the Allied Arts Council’s Young Artist Award and is a Betty Mitchell Award nominee. Camille is currently the Playwright in Residence at Alberta Theatre Projects, where she teaches playwriting for teens. See more of her work at www.camillepavlenko.com

Camille is a 2021 National Long Form mentor and worked with Anosh Irani.