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13-477: On February 7, 2012, Bomb Girls was renewed by Shaw Media for a second season consisting of 12 episodes. The second season premiered on Global Canada January 2, 2013. The series was created by Michael MacLennan and Adrienne Mitchell and based on a concept by Debi Drennan and Maureen Jennings . Although set at the fictional Victory Munitions plant in Toronto, the series was based on the real accounts of workers from

26-618: A Jessie Award for outstanding emerging playwright and the Theatrum National Playwriting Competition. His second play, Leaning Over Railings , premiered in 1995. His 1996 Grace won the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition, and has been produced across Canada and internationally. During this era, he also wrote a number of short one-act plays, including Wake No Clocks and Come On! . He then began to study screenwriting at

39-490: A two-hour TV movie serving as a series finale was in the works and was planned air in 2014. Disappointed viewers launched an internet campaign in an effort to get this decision reversed. In October 2013, Shaw Media announced that production had begun on a two-hour television film . The original cast, including Meg Tilly , Jodi Balfour , Charlotte Hegele , Ali Liebert , Antonio Cupo , Anastasia Phillips , Michael Seater , and Peter Outerbridge reprised their roles. The film

52-552: A writer and co-executive producer on Queer as Folk , writing 14 episodes over four seasons. Concurrently with the final season of Queer as Folk , he co-created and produced the Citytv dramedy series Godiva's in 2005. In 2006, he created a theatrical adaptation of Douglas Coupland 's novel Life After God , resulting in Coupland inviting him to write and coproduce the television series adaptation of Coupland's novel jPod . He

65-593: A writer and producer of television series such as Queer as Folk and Bomb Girls . As a playwright he is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama , and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition twice. Born in Vancouver , British Columbia , MacLennan began his career as a stage actor. In his first theatre role at age 13, he

78-840: The Canadian Film Centre , although he continued to write plays during this time. He won the Herman Voaden Playwrighting Competition in 1998 for his play The Shooting Stage , and in 2001 for Last Romantics . Both plays were later nominated for the Governor General's Award for English drama, The Shooting Stage at the 2002 Governor General's Awards and Last Romantics at the 2003 Governor General's Awards . He began his television career as writer and story editor for Sullivan Entertainment 's television series Wind at My Back , Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series and Super Rupert . He then became

91-558: The DIL Ajax and the GECO Scarborough plants. The first season was written by Michael MacLennan, Esta Spalding , John Krizanc , and Shelley Eriksen and directed by Adrienne Mitchell, Ken Girotti , and Anne Wheeler . The executive producers are Janis Lundman, Michael MacLennan, Adrienne Mitchell, and Michael Prupas. The first season producer is Wendy Grean. The editors are Teresa De Luca and Tad Seaborn. Éric Cayla does cinematography on

104-730: The Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Society, at an annual ceremony. The awards are named after Jessie Richardson , co-founder of the Playhouse Holiday Theatre, local actor, director and designer. The rules for the Jessie Awards are set forth by the Jessie Review Committee each year, which applies for each season only. Large Theatre Small Theatre Theatre for Young Audiences Additional Awards 2020 awards and nominations are from

117-512: The Victory Munitions Factory. Season 1 was filmed from September 12 to November 16, 2011. Muse Entertainment and Back Alley Film Productions are the production companies. In Canada, the series is distributed by Shaw Media ; internationally the series is distributed by Muse Distribution International. In April 2013, Global TV and Shaw Media announced that Bomb Girls would not return for a third season. They did, however, suggest that

130-528: The show. Aidan Leroux is the production designer, Joanne Hansen is the costume designer, Valentine Prokop is in the sound department, and Marie Nardella is in makeup department. Mario Rachiele adds visual effects to the program. The score is composed by Peter Chapman, and music supervision is by Andrea Higgins of Arpix Media. The series was filmed in Toronto with a converted furniture factory in Etobicoke standing for

143-647: Was cast to play a woman, and later in his career he produced a short performance piece about his fear at the time that his parents would see the play and realize that he was gay . He moved to Victoria in 1986 to study English at the University of Victoria . His first full-length play, Beat the Sunset , premiered at the Victoria Fringe Festival in 1993. It was later staged in Vancouver in 1995, winning MacLennan

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156-524: Was cocreator and executive producer of Bomb Girls , which premiered in 2011. His other credits as a writer and producer have included The Guard , Being Erica , Flashpoint , Bitten and The Fosters . Jessie Richardson Theatre Award The Jessie Richardson Theatre Award (commonly known as the Jessie Awards ) is given to recognize achievement in professional theatre in Vancouver , British Columbia. The Jessies are presented by

169-578: Was shot in Toronto and Hamilton until November 20, 2013. This was confirmed by Ali Liebert. The film, titled Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy , premiered on Global TV in Canada on March 27, 2014 and was later aired on Reelz in the United States on May 26, 2014. Michael MacLennan Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright , television writer and television producer , best known as

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