Cheryl Foggo

Cheryl Foggo (b. Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian author, screenwriter and playwright.

She is descended from black Oklahomans who settled in Amber Valley, Alberta and Maidstone, Saskatchewan in 1910. Foggo grew up with CTrain designer Oliver Bowen and her mother's bridesmaid was Violet King Henry, the first black woman lawyer in Canada.

A keen researcher and voice for black pioneers in Canada, Foggo has also had multiple showings of her multi-media presentations: Ranchers, Rebels and the Righteous, Creole, Travelling On, Five Voices and Unlocking Sacred Codes. She created the play John Ware Re-Imagined, hoping to bring attention to the black Canadian cowboy in time for the centennial of the Calgary Stampede in 2012.

She has been profiled in Who’s Who in Black Canada.

Foggo has written for Reader’s Digest.ca, Avenue, AlbertaViews, Alberta Ventures, Calgary, Western Living, Sunday Magazine, Arts Bridge, Muse, Canadian Consumer, the Calgary Herald, the Globe and Mail and Legacy.

In August 2014, her play, John Ware Reimagined, premiered in Calgary, produced by Ellipsis Tree Collective Theatre Company. John Ware Reimagined had its first public reading in February 2012. The script won the Writers Guild of Alberta 2015 Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama.

In August 2012, The Devil We Know, her play co-written with Clem Martini, premiered at the Blyth Theatre Festival.

In 2010, she created a stage adaptation of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, receiving workshops and staged readings during Theatre Calgary’s Fuse Festival and Afrikadey.

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