Joan Burrows is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and has won several ACT-CO and Theatre Ontario awards for her work as a stage manager, director, and playwright. She has been a long-time member of the Curtain Club in Richmond Hill and of the Alumnae Theatre, in Toronto, specifically working with their New Play Development Program. Her other plays include Staff Room, The Photograph, Willow Quartet, and Fourteen Hours. She is currently working on a musical adaptation of Willow Quartet with Ron Cameron-Lewis and Jason Saunders at Sheridan College and completing her sixth play, Persons of Interest, a comedy about the American Internal Revenue Service.