Marie Beath Badian

Marie Beath Badian is an award-winning, Filipino-Canadian writer and playwright based in Toronto. Her plays include The Waltz, Prairie Nurse, The Best Friend Blanket Fort Show, The Making of St. Jerome, Mind Over Matter, and Novena. Marie Beath is a two-time alumnus of The Banff Playwrights Lab and joined the faculty as the 2024 Playwright in Residence. She has developed work in the playwright units of Cahoots Theatre Company, Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Playwrights Circle and The Factory Theatre. She was the Playwright-in-Residence at fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company, Project:Humanity and The Blyth Festival. Her outreach and education work includes Cahoots Theatre Projects/Crossing Gibraltar, Children’s Peace Theatre, The Paprika Festival, Theatre Revolve, Theatre Passe Muraille, Roseneath Theatre and Young People’s Theatre. Marie Beath spent two seasons as Director of the Blyth Festival Young Company, two seasons as Co-Director of Youth Programs at Nightwood Theatre and two seasons as Associate Artistic Director/Associate Artist at Theatre Direct Canada. She spent five seasons as the Program Director for the Play Creation Unit at Carlos Bulosan Theatre. She has taught at Humber College Theatre Arts Performance Program and Randolph College for The Performing Arts. She has served on several arts juries including Summerworks, The Playwrights Guild of Canada, The Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council and The Manitoba Arts Council. Her plays Prairie Nurse and The Waltz are part of a multi-generational trilogy spanning fifty-years, set in rural Saskatchewan. The third play, The Cottage Guest, is in development.