Do you remember a train trip from Sudbury to the Montreal World’s Fair: Expo 67? If so, there is a local playwright who wants to hear from you!
Lisa Coleman-Brown, a member of the Sudbury Writers’ Guild and Playwrights Guild of Canada, has been awarded an Ontario Arts Council Theatre Recommender Grant from Tangled Art+Disability in support of the creation of her play “Garson Girl.”
As it will be based on the true story of 11-year-old Carolyn Astgen’s adventure on the Lions
Club sponsored 1967 field trip which took local school children to Expo 67 by train, Coleman-Brown is eager to contact anyone (students, teachers, chaperones, Lions Club members, or railway workers etc.) who participated in this trip and can share their own, or their or senior family members’ memories, photos, slides or home movies.
Coleman-Brown is bipolar and author of many published short stories, recently co-writing the radio play Inferno 6077: Born Out of Fire commissioned by Northern Screams and the Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre for their pandemic friendly, tourism-award nominated, drive-in style Terror Train Haunt produced in October 2020.
Her psychedelic one-act comedy play 2 Guys on a Wall, about the building of Inco’s superstack during Sudbury’s 1970 tornado, was published in Laurentian University’s literary journal SULPHUR IV in 2014.
Those willing to be interviewed are asked to contact Coleman-Brown by calling 705-693-0947, or emailing [email protected].
