Kelly Rebar

{{short description|Canadian playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)}}

Kelly Rebar (born 1956 in Lethbridge, Alberta) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter,"Playwright a dramatic success". Montreal Gazette, April 6, 1988. best known for the play and film Bordertown Café.[http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Rebar%2C%20Kelly "Rebar, Kelly"]. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, October 11, 2011.

Her first play, Chatters, was produced at Calgary's Factory Theatre West in 1974. She studied film at York University in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1978. Her second play, Checkin' Out, was produced by Northern Light Theatre in 1981, and Bordertown Café was first staged in 1987."Family relationships simmer in humorous cross-border comedy at Blyth Festival". Ottawa Citizen, June 24, 1987. Her other plays have included First Snowfall and Cornflower Blue."Playwright planted prairie populism at PTE". Winnipeg Free Press, November 12, 2009.

For the theatrical version of Bordertown Café, she was shortlisted for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 1989,"And the Dora nominees are..." The Globe and Mail, May 13, 1989. and won the Canadian Authors Association award for drama in 1990,"Calgary playwright wins Canadian literary award". Edmonton Journal, May 17, 1990. and for the film version she was a shortlisted Genie Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992."Genie award nominations". Toronto Star, November 20, 1992. She subsequently concentrated on film and television writing, including the television series Wind at My Back and Jake and the Kid, and CBC Television's film adaptation of Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women.