Diana Frances
Biography
Diana Frances, a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Primetime TV Writing Program, stands out as an award-winning writer in the Canadian entertainment scene. Notably, she clinched a 2020 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in Animation for her exceptional work on Corner Gas Animated and received a 2020 Writers Guild of Canada Award nomination for Best Writing in Comedy. Her accolades also include winning the 2017 Sondra Kelly Award from the Writer's Guild of Canada. Originating from Vancouver, BC, Diana's comedic journey commenced at The Vancouver TheatreSports League after attending theatre school at Douglas College. With experience at Second City Theatricals and a background entertaining Canadian soldiers worldwide, she's been nominated for eight Canadian Comedy Awards as Best Female Improviser, earning her group the Best Sketch Group title in 2008 with Canadian Content. Currently residing in Toronto with her Golden Retriever Hunter, Diana infuses her canine companion into her creative works.
Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Dog Lady Tourist
The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.
Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • as Woman on Street
An absurd comedy about a Parking Enforcement Officer, who - despite constant abuse from the public - finds truth, honour and serenity in the act of ticketing. His religious devotion to the work is challenged however, when his best friend and personal mentor is run down by an irate motorist and knocked into a deep coma. With the help of an angry young filmmaker, a Russian sound recordist hoping to break into the local film industry, and a seven-foot tall tow truck driver from Quebec, he embarks on a comical investigation into... the delicate art of parking.