Lorena Gale

Lorena Gale (May 9, 1958 – June 21, 2009) was a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s. She also authored two award-winning plays, Angélique and Je me souviens. 2Biography Lorena Gale was born in Montreal, Quebec to a white Canadian mother and a black American father. She studied at Concordia University and the National Theatre School and completed a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in 2005. Her performances on stage for Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger won her the Montreal Gazette Theatre Critics Award for Outstanding Performance in 1981. In 1985 she became the artistic director of Montréal's Black Theatre Workshop. She then studied playwriting at the Playwrights' Workshop Montréal. After moving to Vancouver in 1988, Lorena won a 1991 Jessie Richardson Award for best supporting actress as Normal Jean in The Colored Museum (1990) . Her play, Angélique, the story of executed slave Marie-Joseph Angelique, was the winner of the 1995 duMaurier National Playwriting Competition in Canad