Elaine vila's plays are produced in Central America, Europe, the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Her Best New Play Awards include: Jane Austen, Action Figure (Festival de los Cocos, Panam City), Lieutenant Nun (Victoria Critics Circle), and Caf a Brasileira (Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon). Her most recent play, Fado, won the award for Favourite Musical in Victoria, BC. She has taught in universities from Portugal to Tasmania (lutruwita), China to Panama, and is the co-founder of the International Climate Change Theatre Action, involving fifty playwrights, two hundred venues, and twelve thousand audience members worldwide. A 2019 Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Azores, vila now lives in New Westminster, British Columbia.
On The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin: It's been nearly a century since Albert 'Ginger' Goodwin was shot and killed in the Cumberland bush on Canada's Vancouver Island, but thanks to people such as playwright Elaine Avila, the legacy of the workers' rights activist won't soon be forgotten. -Cascadia Weekly On Kitimat: It's a story as familiar to people in the US as in Canada - a large corporation comes to a town where they want to develop or deliver resources and they promise work and money, a boom, if the citizens will let the corporation have its way. -National Observer