Playwright
Radio Plays
Magpie
Drama. 30 minutes.
Magpic, a parole surveillance officer, runs a halfway house with an agenda of her own.
Abby’s Place
Drama. 30 minutes.
Rodney fixes up a northern lake cabin as a healing place for Abby, but it becomes his own salvation.
Cowboy Boots and a Corsage
Drama. 30 minutes.
Roxanne wants out of small town southern Alberta but she can’t leave her mom, Jeannie, yelling at cows on the prairie.
Lily of the Prairie
Drama. 60 minutes.
Lily goes to London to fulfill her grandpa’s last wishes, but gets caught in 1666 in a romantic, search for her own place in the world.
Katherine Koller lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and writes for radio, stage and screen. Her one-acts, including Cowboy Boots and a Corsage, have been produced at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, on CBC radio, and across the country.
Some of her full-length plays concern the pressures of science and technology on family relationships, often with the land or some element of nature playing a character part. Coal Valley: the Making of a Miner (2005) is included in The Alberta Advantage, published by Playwrights Canada Press. The Seed Savers (2009) received its premiere at Workshop West Theatre.
Katherine teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.