Patricia Marie Budd

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Patricia Marie Budd was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada. She lived in Japan where Patricia taught English as a Foreign Language for two years. In her early twenties she studied mime in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and then later in life renewed her interest in physical theatre by studying with Phillip Gaulier in London, England in 96/97. Her current residence is in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada where she has been teaching High School English since 1991.
Much of Patricia’s writing has been theatrical in nature, having a one act play produced in The Rhubarb Festival’s Special Event in 1984. She has also participated in a number of play writing labs under the tutelage of Sharon Pollock. In 1998 she was a part of the Alberta Playwriting Committee. Patricia’s first novel, A New Dawn Rising is set near Savannah, Georgia in the early eighteen hundreds. Patricia spent three years researching into life in the eighteen hundreds and Georgia slave law whilst writing this novel Patricia Marie Budd teaches high school in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Having spent nineteen years in the classroom, her experiences qualify her to critique the education system in a comical way.