Michelle Deines

BFA, MFA

Academic Coordinator, Theatre
School of Performing Arts
School of Performing Arts - Theatre

604.986.1911 ext. 3419
Arbutus Building, room AR106T
michelledeines@capilanou.ca

Education

MFA, University of British Columbia, 2011.

Professional Teacher's Certificate, British Columbia Teachers College, 2000.

BFA, University of Victoria, 1999.

Bio

Michelle Deines (MFA, University of British Columbia, 2011) is an award-winning writer who works in multiple genres, including poetry, non-fiction and drama. Her poetry has been published in several magazines, including The Writers Caf Magazine, Event and Contemporary Verse 2, and her non-fiction has appeared in such publications as Maisonneuve and Canadian Dimension. Deines' plays include an adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility, which was presented in 2018 at Capilano University, A Dog at a Feast, I am the Bastard Daughter of Engelbert Humperdinck (co-written with Kathryn Kirkpatrick) and Ghosts in Baghdad, which was nominated for the Jessie Richardson Vancouver Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script in 2014, and won the Special Merit Prize in Theatre BC's National Playwriting Competition in 2013.

Deines works as a literary editor and dramaturge, and is a faculty member of the Theatre and English Departments at Capilano University, where she teaches theatre history and playwriting. She holds a BFA in Theatre and English from the University of Victoria and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is Artistic Director of Working Spark Theatre, which she founded in 2007.