Erin Shields

Erin Shields is a Montreal-based playwright. Her plays include: Ransacking Troy (Stratford Festival, 2025); Queen Goneril (Soulpepper Theatre, 2022); Paradise Lost (Stratford Festival, 2018; winner of the Quebec Writers'Federation Prize for Playwriting, nominated for a Governor General's Award); If We Were Birds (Tarragon Theatre; winner of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama); The Lady from the Sea (Shaw Festival); The Millennial Malcontent and Soliciting Temptation (Tarragon Theatre); The Angel and the Sparrow (Segal Centre) and Montparnasse (Groundwater Productions), Instant (Geordie Productions, Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding TYA Production, Montreal English Theatre Award for Outstanding New Text), Mistatim (Red Sky Performance), and Unit B1717 (Théâtre á Corps Perdus).